Robert Ainsworth (lexicographer)
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Robert Ainsworth (September 1660 – 4 April 1743) was an English Latin lexicographer, and author of a well-known compendious Dictionary of the Latin Tongue.
He was born at Wordsall, in the parish of Eccles, Manchester, in September 1660.[1] After he had finished his own education, he began his career as schoolmaster at Bolton; from there he went to London; and at Bethnal Green, Hackney, and other suburban villages, continued to run a school until he retired some years before his death.
Ainsworth died on 4 April 1743, at the age of 82, and was buried at St Matthias Old Church, Poplar, where an inscription in Latin verse, written by himself, was placed over his remains and those of his wife. One of the heirs of his estate was a nephew, Peter Ainsworth (born 1713), who used his uncle's money to establish a successful bleach works at Halliwell in Bolton.[2] He was the grandfather of Peter Ainsworth (1790–1870), a Whig politician.[3]
