Richard Astry (c. 1632 – 1714) was an Englishantiquary.
Astry was born inHuntingdonshire in or about 1632. He was admitted toQueens' College, Cambridge on 14 March 1647–48, proceeded B.A. in 1651 and in 1654 obtained from his college a grace for M.A., though that degree is not recorded in the university registers.[1] After leaving the university he was elected analderman ofHuntingdon, and he was buried at St. Mary's in that town on 11 August 1714, aged 83.
He was, according toThompson Cooper in theDictionary of National Biography, the author of aquarto volume of collections, heraldic and topographical, relating Huntingdonshire, preserved in theLansdowne MS. 921. The authorship of this manuscript, is also ascribed toSir Robert Bruce Cotton.Thomas Baker made copious extracts from this work in the thirty-sixth volume of his manuscripts, which were later deposited in theUniversity Library, Cambridge.
Astry also drew upAlphabetical Catalogues of English Surnames, with the arms belonging to them, and the particular times that the persons recorded lived; forming three volumes, formerly in the possession of the Rev. Henry Freeman, ofNorman Cross.
"Astry, Richard" .Dictionary of National Biography. London:Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
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