Thomas Kerrich [SEP] date of death
Thomas Kerrich
Thomas Kerrich (1748–1828) was a clergyman, principal Cambridge University librarian (Protobibliothecarius), antiquary, draughtsman and gifted amateur artist. He created one of the first catalogue raisonnés (for the works of artist Marten van Heemskerck).
Life.
He was born at Dersingham in Norfolk, England, where his father, Samuel was the vicar. After graduating B.A. from Magdalene College, Cambridge, in 1771, he went on the Grand Tour where he encountered Thomas Coke. Kerrich was a Fellow of Magdalene
was among the manuscripts which, after his death, passed to Thomas Kerrich, who bequeathed them to the British Museum. The same collection contained the manuscript and many of the illustrations for his unfinished "History of Gothic Architecture". 
In 1748, when Essex was 26, he became involved in a controversy with the Rev. R. Masters, fellow and historian of Corpus Christi College, over the authorship of a plan for adding a new court to the college. In December 1747 Masters had employed Essex to draw a plan,