Crossword-Solution: NUMBERER 8 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Before he became famous as a tobacconist, Hardham was, by night, a numberer of the pit for Garrick at Drury Lane.

Herald of our summer, she glances through our days of gladness; numberer of our years, she would teach us to apply our hearts to wisdom;--and yet, so little have we regarded her, that this very day, scarcely able to gather from all I can find told of her enough to explain so much as the unfolding of her wings, I can tell you nothing of her life--nothing of her journeying: I cannot learn how she builds, nor how she chooses the place of her wandering, nor how she traces the path of her return.

Hardham, a native of Chichester, began life as a servant, wrote a comedy, acted, and at last became Garrick's "numberer," having a general's quick _coup d'oeil_ at gauging an audience, and so checking the money-takers.

John Andrew, of Belfast, whose pendulographs illustrate the ratios which rule in the domain of atmospheric vibrations, in which audible music has been located by the great numberer, wrote: "I think that now, at last, Keely's labours are about to be honourably recognized by the world of science.