John Ives FRS and FSA (14 July 1751 – 9 January 1776) was an

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and

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at the

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in London. Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 29, Ives, John
retrieved December 2017 He was born in

Great Yarmouth Great Yarmouth (), often called Yarmouth, is a seaside town and unparished area in, and the main administrative centre of, the Borough of Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, England; it straddles the River Yare and is located east of Norwich. A pop ...

, the son of another John Ives, a wealthy merchant. He was baptized at a Congregationalist church and it was from a Congregationalist minister that he received his earliest educational instruction. He was planning to attend

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but went to work in his father's counting-house in 1767. Due to his father's wealth, Ives did not need to take a job, and his growing interest in British antiquities made it undesirable. Ives was elected as a fellow of the

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on 13 June 1771. Shortly thereafter, Ives began to assemble material for a history of

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, the north-easternmost part of

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. This was never published, but a manuscript version of it, entitled ''Collectanea Lothinglandia or The History and Antiquities of the Hundred of Lothingland'' can be found in the

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. Ives was also able to spend time as a collector, thanks to his father's resources. He was also able to acquire a private press around the beginning of 1772. With this, he produced a printed copy of the

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al and burial registers of Great Yarmouth for the preceding nine years in dated 5 September 1772. John Ives seal

Ives was made a fellow of the

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on 25 March 1773. That summer, he

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d with Sarah Kett at Lambeth on 16 July 1773. In October 1774 Ives was appointed Suffolk Herald of Arms Extraordinary at the College of Arms. As an officer extraordinary, he did not receive automatic access to the College's records. However, he was corresponding with

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, then Rouge Croix Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary, which indicates that Ives was friendly with the officers in ordinary. He died of

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at Great Yarmouth on 9 January 1776. He was buried with his family in Belton church. In accordance with his will, his collections were auctioned in the spring of 1777 in London, the proceeds going to Sarah, his widow.

References

* Walter H. Godfrey and

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, ''The College of Arms, Queen Victoria Street: being the sixteenth and final monograph of the London Survey Committee''. (London, 1963), 277–281. * Sir Anthony Wagner. ''Heralds of England: a History of the Office and College of Arms''. (London, 1967), 317–319. *

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. ''A History of the College of Arms''. (London, 1805), 445–7. * N. Scarfe. "John Ives, FRS and FSA, Suffolk Herald Extraordinary, 1751–1776." ''Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology'', XXXIII Part 3 (1975)
299–309
(Suffolk Institute pdf).

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