John Kirby (topographer)

Life

Kirby, born in 1690 at Halesworth, Suffolk, was originally a schoolmaster at Orford in that county, and afterwards occupied a mill at Wickham Market. In 1714, he married Alice Brown.{{cite DNB|title=Kirby, John|first=Gordon|last=Goodwin

''The Suffolk Traveller''

Main article: The Suffolk Traveller

In 1735, he published at Ipswich, in duodecimo, The Suffolk Traveller; or, a Journey through Suffolk, a road-book with antiquarian notices, from an actual survey which he made of the whole county in 1732, 1733, and 1734. Prefixed is a small map of the county. A new edition was published by subscription, with 'many alterations and large additions by several hands,' in 1764, 8vo, London, under the editorship of the Rev. Richard Canning, of which a reprint was issued from Woodbridge about 1800, containing some trifling additions, and a fourth edition, with additions, appeared as A Topographical . . . Description of the County of Suffolk, 8vo, Woodbridge, 1829, with Ebden's map in place of Kirby's. A Supplement to the Suffolk Traveller was published in 1844 by Augustine Page (cf. his Introduction, p. vi). In 1736 Kirby issued A Map of the County of Suffolk, illustrated with coats of arms and views. An improved edition, engraved by John Ryland, was published on a larger scale in 1766 by his sons Joshua Kirby and William Kirby.

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References

1. John Blatchly, ''John Kirby's Suffolk: His Maps and Roadbooks'' (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2004) {{ISBN. 978-1-84383-051-1
2. Goodwin <!--, Gordon. "Kirby, John Joshua".
3. Owen, Felicity. "Kirby, Joshua".
4. Owen, Felicity. "Kirby, Joshua".
5. For a summary of the family of John Kirby, see John Freeman, ''Life of the Rev. William Kirby, M.A.'' (Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1852) [https://books.google.com/books?id=fwA6AAAAcAAJ Chapter 1].