[1] Kirby lived in Wickham Market, Suffolk and spent three years between 1732 and 1734 surveying the entire county.

[1] Kirby, born in 1690 at Halesworth, Suffolk, was originally a schoolmaster at Orford in that county, and afterwards occupied a mill at Wickham Market.

A new edition was published by subscription, with 'many alterations and large additions by several hands,' in 1764, 8vo, London, under the editorship of the Rev.

Description of the County of Suffolk, 8vo, Woodbridge, 1829, with Ebden's map in place of Kirby's.

In 1736 Kirby issued A Map of the County of Suffolk, illustrated with coats of arms and views.