– 1780 (published by the British Record Society) Index to names and surnames (687 pp.) Volume 2 includes an "Index of Names to the Marriages, Births, Deaths, Promotions, &c." covering 1731–1786, and volume 4 contains an "Index of Names of Persons" covering 1731–1818. The indexes are by surname only and are available online for free through Google Books: Ayscough, Samuel; Nichols, John. "General Index to the Gentleman's Magazine" Nichols, 1789. Vol. 2. Free digital version at Google Books (follow link to page 64, which is followed by the index, which is numbered as page 1). Indexes names from Vol. 1 "To the End of the LVIth Volume of the Gentleman’s Magazine" and covers 1731–1786. Ayscough, Samuel; Nichols, John. (sometimes Richard, Gabriel) "General Index to the Gentleman's Magazine 1787–1818" Nichols, 1821. Vol. 3. Free digital version at Google Books David Dobson gleaned references to American births, marriages, and deaths from The Gentleman's Magazine and published it as American Vital Records from the Gentleman's Magazine, 1731–1868 (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1987). A few partial indexes to genealogical events in The Gentleman's Magazine are also available: Fry, Edward Alexander. "Index to the Marriages in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1731–1768" (London:[s.n.], 1922) Fry, Edward Alexander. "Index to the Biographical and Obituary Notices in Gentleman's Magazine, 1731–1780" (London: British Records Society, 1891) Marriages from The Gentleman's Magazine for the years 1731 to 1768 were included in Boyd's Marriage Index. Obituaries were included in Musgrave's Obituaries. Joseph Foster's index to marriages includes marriages from this periodical, as well as from The Times (1865–1880 only) and the Historical Register; but covers surname beginning Aa–Alexander only. Bodleian Library's Internet Library of Early Journals offers an online subject search tool for the years 1731–1750. Authors of works published Mark Akenside (1721–1770), physician and poet Henry Aldrich (1647–1710), English theologian and philosopher Richard Allestree or Allestry (1619–1681), Royalist churchman and provost of Eton College from 1665 Anthony Alsop (d. 1726), Church of England clergyman and poetical writer George Ashby (1724–1808), English learned antiquary and sometime president of St. John's College, Cambridge Francis Atterbury (1663–1732), English man of letters, politician, Bishop of Rochester, and Dean of Westminster Abbey Samuel Badcock (1747–1788), English nonconformist minister, theological writer and literary critic Henry Baker (1698–1774) John Bancks (1709–1751), miscellaneous writer Mary Barber (c. 1685–c. 1755), poet, mother of nine children, and a member of Swift's circle Samuel Bowden (fl. 1733–1761), English physician and poet