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15 December 1648 | Gregory King was born on 15 December 1648 at Liechtfield, Staffordshire in England and died on 29 August 1712 in London. He was an English genealogist, engraver and especially well-known for his work as a statistician. | ||
== Works and Writings == | |||
The work of Gregory King was multi-faceted since he worked in the fields of genealogy, engraving and statistics. | |||
Gregory King was well-known for his work ''Natural and Political Observations and Conclusions upon the State and Condition of England, 1696''. It was first published in 1801 and depicts the population and wealth of England at the end of the 17th century. The work illustrates for instance precise accounts of demographic characteristics like age, gender, marital status, number of children, servants and sojourners of the population of England and Wales at that time. | |||
Gregory King also edited the ''Book of Roads'', supervised the engravings inside the book and even contributed some of his own works as an engraver to it. | |||
== (Gregory) King's Law (of Demand) or King-Davenant Law == | |||
Revision as of 09:40, 12 June 2013
Gregory King was born on 15 December 1648 at Liechtfield, Staffordshire in England and died on 29 August 1712 in London. He was an English genealogist, engraver and especially well-known for his work as a statistician.
Works and Writings
The work of Gregory King was multi-faceted since he worked in the fields of genealogy, engraving and statistics. Gregory King was well-known for his work Natural and Political Observations and Conclusions upon the State and Condition of England, 1696. It was first published in 1801 and depicts the population and wealth of England at the end of the 17th century. The work illustrates for instance precise accounts of demographic characteristics like age, gender, marital status, number of children, servants and sojourners of the population of England and Wales at that time. Gregory King also edited the Book of Roads, supervised the engravings inside the book and even contributed some of his own works as an engraver to it.