310 Mr. Purkes's Ilistori/ of 



after his settlement in Saint Paul's Church yard the publication 

 of the "work commenced, as already related. 



It is remarkable that Mr. Griffiths not only planned this im- 

 portant Work, but that he gave it to the world without any re- 

 commendatory Preface, or any encomiastic explanation what- 

 ever of the scheme of the undertaking; that he continued the 

 publication without private patronage of any kind; and actually 

 lived to witness its growing prosperity, and to superintend and 

 conduct the press for fifty-four years. The profits arising from 

 the sale of this very respectable and useful Journal, enabled 

 him to live in a state of comfort, and latterly of opulence. — 

 His Son, George Edward Griffiths, Esq. of Turnham Green, 

 has continued to be the Editor ever since the demise of his 

 Father. 



It has already been observed that the contributors to the 

 Monthly Review were Gentlemen of the most respectable cha- 

 racters ; and I have understood that the first article in the work 

 was written by Dr. William Rose, who kept an academy of 

 great respectability at Chiswick, and was author of a well 

 known translation of Sallust*. This Gentleman was brother- 

 in-law to Mr. (afterwards Dr.) Griffiths and also to the Rev. 

 Jabez Hirons of St. Albans; these three gentlemen having 

 married the three daughters of the Rev. Dr. Samuel Clarke 

 of the latter place. Another constant contributor was the 

 Rev. William Ludlam the Mathematician, author of many 

 esteemed works on astronomy and mathematics, Rector of 

 Cuckfield in Sussex, and Vicar of Norton by Galby, Fellow of 

 John's College, Cambridge, <S-c. S,c. The Rev. Thomas Gwatkin, 

 who was afterwards Professor of Mathematics and Natural Phi- 



• The literary rank which Dr. Rose held with Iiis contemporaries, may 

 be readily conceived from the following circumstances. He was the con- 

 stant friend and counsellor of Andrew Miller, the eminent Bookseller in 

 the Strand ; Dr. Lysons speaks in the handsomest way of him in his His- 

 tory, and Arthur Murphy wrote lines upon his death, which are inscribed 

 upon his tomb. A further account of this excellent man, may be seen in 

 Nichols's Anecdotes of ihe 18lb Century, Vol. III. p. 386- 



t Nicholson's Literary Anecdotes, Vol. III. page 506. 



