The Quartercentenary Biography of Elias Ashmole aims to complement previous scholarship about him both by eminent past historians and by myself, while telling an incredible rags-to-riches story. Having spent most of the last twenty years on Elias Ashmole's collection of manuscripts and books, I felt I owed it to Ashmole that I should write his Quartercentenary Biography. The year 2017 marks 400 years since Elias Ashmole's birth, in Lichfield...