Richard Grey (doctor)

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Richard Grey, D.D. (1694 – 1771), was born in Newcastle and studied at Oxford. From 1720, he was rector of Hinton, Northamptonshire.

He published Memoria Technica; or a New Method of Artificial Memory in 1730. Grey uses strings of letters to remember numbers. Example: az = 10, tel = 325, teib = 381.