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    Gregory King (15 December 1648 – 29 August 1712) was an English officer of arms, engraver, cartographer and statistician. [1] Life. Gregory King was born at Lichfield, England. His father was a surveyor and landscape gardener. Gregory was a bright boy, and his father used him as an assistant in his surveying work.

  2. Gregory King was an English genealogist, engraver, and statistician, best known for his Natural and Political Observations and Conclusions upon the State and Condition of England, 1696, first published in 1801, which gives the best available picture of England’s population and wealth at the end of.

    • The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
  3. Jun 28, 2005 · Gregory King (December 15, 1648 - August 29, 1712) English genealogist, civil servant and "the first great economic statistician." Gregory King was born at Litchfield, England. His father was a surveyor and landscape gardener.

  4. Gregory King. (1648—1712) herald and political economist. Quick Reference. (1648–1712) Pioneer statistician and demographer.

  5. Apr 23, 2013 · This article presents an input–output table for England and Wales for the year 1688 which is based on the extensive dataset compiled by Gregory King in the 1690s, together with other contemporary and modern material relating to the end of the seventeenth century.

    • John Dodgson
    • 2013
  6. Yet, thanks to the work of one remarkable Englishman, who was born in 1648 and died in 1712, there is one aspect of this pre-industrial period—its social structure—on which we are all happy to pontificate. Gregory King's table of ranks and degrees, on which in the last resort so much of this confidence rests, has now acquired a unique cachet.

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  8. Apr 1, 2005 · Gregory King (1648-1712) was an engraver, herald, surveyor, and Secretary to the Commissioners for the Public Accounts, but he is best known for his 1696 estimates of the wealth and population of England.