Ely Hargrove

1741, he was the son of James Hargrove of Halifax, by his wife Mary, daughter of George Gudgeon of Skipton-in-Craven.

[1] In 1769, according to William Boyne in the Yorkshire Library, there appeared anonymously the first edition of Hargrove's History of the Castle, Town, and Forest of Knaresborough, with Harrogate and its Medicinal Waters, which was frequently republished, later with the compiler's name on the title-page.

To the sixth edition, Knaresborough, 1809, was appended an Ode on Time, reprinted in William Hargrove's York Poetical Miscellany (1835).

His manuscript collections on Yorkshire history filled sixteen volumes.

[1] Hargrove married, first, Christiana (d. 1780), daughter of Thomas Clapham of Firby, near Bedale, Yorkshire, by whom he had issue twelve children; and secondly, Mary, daughter of John Bower of Grenoside Hall, near Sheffield; she died at York in April 1825, and was buried at Knaresborough, leaving a son, William Hargrove.