Ely Hargrove (1741–1818) was an English bookseller and local historian.

Life

Born at

Halifax, Yorkshire Halifax () is a minster and market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale in West Yorkshire, England. It is the commercial, cultural and administrative centre of the borough, and the headquarters of Calderdale Council. In the 15th cen ...

, on 19 March (O.S.) 1741, he was the son of James Hargrove of Halifax, by his wife Mary, daughter of George Gudgeon of Skipton-in-Craven. In February 1762 he settled at

Knaresborough Knaresborough ( ) is a market and spa town and civil parish in the Borough of Harrogate, in North Yorkshire, England, on the River Nidd. It is east of Harrogate. History Knaresborough is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as ''Chenares ...

, as a bookseller and publisher. A few years later he was able to open a branch business at

Harrogate Harrogate ( ) is a spa town and the administrative centre of the Borough of Harrogate in North Yorkshire, England. Historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire, the town is a tourist destination and its visitor attractions include its spa w ...

. Hargrove died at Knaresborough on 5 December 1818, and was buried in the churchyard there.

Works

In 1769, according to William Boyne in the ''Yorkshire Library'', there appeared anonymously the first edition of Hargrove's ''History of the Castle, Town, and Forest of Knaresborough, with Harrogate and its Medicinal Waters'', which was frequently republished, later with the compiler's name on the title-page. The York edition of 1798 had plates and woodcuts by

Thomas Bewick Thomas Bewick (c. 11 August 17538 November 1828) was an English wood-engraver and natural history author. Early in his career he took on all kinds of work such as engraving cutlery, making the wood blocks for advertisements, and illustrating ch ...

. To the sixth edition, Knaresborough, 1809, was appended an ''Ode on Time'', reprinted in William Hargrove's ''York Poetical Miscellany'' (1835). Hargrove also compiled: * ''Anecdotes of Archery from the earliest ages to the year 1791 . . . with some curious particulars in the Life of Robert Fitz-Ooth, Earl of Huntingdon, vulgarly called Robin Hood'', York, 1792 (another edition, by Alfred E. Hargrove, York 1845). * ''The Yorkshire Gazetteer, or a Dictionary of the Towns, Villages, and Hamlets, Monasteries and Castles, principal Mountains, Rivers, &c., in the county of York and Ainsty'', Knaresborough, 1806; second edition, 1812. Under the signature of "E. H. K.", Hargrove contributed papers to the ''

Gentleman's Magazine ''The Gentleman's Magazine'' was a monthly magazine founded in London, England, by Edward Cave in January 1731. It ran uninterrupted for almost 200 years, until 1922. It was the first to use the term '' magazine'' (from the French ''magazine' ...

'', and wrote an account of

Boroughbridge Boroughbridge () is a town and civil parish in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it is north-west of the county town of York. Until a bypass was built the town lay on t ...

to the fifth volume of ''

Rees's Cyclopædia Rees's ''Cyclopædia'', in full ''The Cyclopædia; or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature'' was an important 19th-century British encyclopaedia edited by Rev. Abraham Rees (1743–1825), a Presbyterian minister and scholar w ...

''. His manuscript collections on Yorkshire history filled sixteen volumes.

Family

Hargrove married, first, Christiana (d. 1780), daughter of Thomas Clapham of Firby, near Bedale, Yorkshire, by whom he had issue twelve children; and secondly, Mary, daughter of John Bower of Grenoside Hall, near Sheffield; she died at York in April 1825, and was buried at Knaresborough, leaving a son, William Hargrove.

Notes

;Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Hargrove, Ely 1741 births 1818 deaths English publishers (people) Historians of Yorkshire People from Halifax, West Yorkshire