Rogers Ruding

Rogers Ruding (1751–1820) was an English cleric and academic, known as a numismatist and the author of the Annals of the Coinage.

[1] He was second son of Rogers Ruding of Westcotes, Leicestershire, by Anne, daughter of James Skrymsher, born at Leicester on 9 August 1751.

[2] Rogers, at the time Reverend & Clerk of St George Bloomsbury, Middlesex, bachelor, was married on 16 May 1793[1] in the Parish of St George, Bloomsbury to his first cousin Charlotte Ruding, spinster (1761-1854), fourth daughter of his uncle John Ruding and wife Jane Evans.

[5] Rogers' wife (and cousin) Charlotte had among her siblings, John Clement Ruding (1753-1829) a Corn Factor (merchant) who married a Martha Davis.

The marriage was performed by Rogers in his capacity as Vicar of Malden, the two men being 1st cousins once removed.