Anthony Askew

Portrait of Anthony Askew, M.D., by Thomas Hodgetts (active 1801–1846), National Portrait Gallery. thumb Anthony Askew (1722–1774) was an English physician and is best known for having been a book collector. His collection was purchased by the British Museum and books purchased by George III of Great Britain were added to the King's Library.

Life and work Askew was born in 1722 in Kendal, Westmorland, the son of Dr. Adam Askew, a well-known physician of Newcastle the Bibliotheca Askeviana, #tag:ref|The Dictionary of National Biographies (1904) stated that Askew died 27 February 1772. The purchasers of Askew's books at the auction included the anatomist William Hunter, the British Museum and the kings of England and France. and the Second Folio of Shakespeare bought in 1800, were added to the King's Library.

Askew's extensive collection of transcribed inscriptions is at the British Museum.