Rogers, a great authority on the national coinage, was born in Leicestershire in 1751, and was educated for the church at Merton College, Oxford. After settling down in 1793 as vicar of Maldon and Chessington in Surrey, he became engrossed with antiquarian researches. In the course of these studies his attention was particularly directed to the subject of the coinage. He saw its imperfections and its evils, and he resolved to try if he could bring about a remedy. His first attempt was a work published in 1798, and entitled *A Proposal for restoring the Ancient Constitution of the Mint so far as relates to the expense of Coinage; together with a Plan for the Improvement of Money, and for increasing the difficulty of Counterfeiting*. This was followed up by the commencement of a more thorough effort. All his antiquarian lore and power of investigation were employed to lay bare the abuse, from its origin to its latest development. In an accurate and minute survey, he showed how the imperfections of the coinage arose and were continued, how it became easy to counterfeit, how vain were the severest penalties enacted against forgery, and how that crime might be prevented by counteracting and weakening the temptation. The book was completed and published in 1817, in 4 volumes, 4to, under the name of *Annals of the Coinage of Britain and its Dependencies, from the earliest period of authentic history to the end of the fiftieth year of his present Majesty King George III*. A second edition was soon afterwards issued, comprising a continuation of the history down to the year 1818. Ruding, at his death in 1820, was a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. He had also been a contributor on the subject of coins to the *Gentleman's Magazine*.