The Life of Samuel Johnson
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Harington, Dr Henry (1727–1816), physician and musician: 864
Harington, Dr Henry (c. 1755–91), son of the preceding and nominal editor of Nugce Antiques: 864
Harington, Sir John (1561–1612), wit, and translator of Ariosto: 1000 n. a
Harley, Edward, see Oxford, Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of
Harrington, Caroline, Countess of (1722–84): 598
Harris, James (1709–80), philosopher and musical patron; author of Hermes, or, A Philosophical Inquiry Concerning Universal Grammar (1751) and Philosophical Arrangements (1775); responsible for the first draft of the libretto for Handel’s L’allegro, il penseroso ed il moderato; supporter of Grenville; MP for Christchurch, Hampshire (1761); commissioner of the Admiralty (1763); commissioner of the Treasury (1763-5); fellow of the Royal Society (1763); close friend of Fielding: 380, 456, 583, 655, 662–4
Harris, Thomas (d. 1820), theatre manager; partner in buying the patent and property of the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden (1767); manager after Colman’s resignation (1774); acquired the King’s Theatre with R. B. Sheridan (1778); generous to actors, enjoying a good reputation and some personal popularity: 582
Harrison, Elizabeth (fl. 1724–56), writer; author of The Friendly Instructor (1741) and Miscellanies on Moral and Religious Subjects (1756), a work to which S.J. subscribed; remains obscure: 13, 167, 168
Harry, Jane, or Jenny, later Mrs Thresher (fl. 1778): 684, 1054 n. 814
Harte, Dr Walter (1709–74), writer; rector of Gosfield, Essex (1734); prebendary at Windsor (1750); vice-principal of St Mary Hall (1740); tutor to Philip Stanhope, Lord Chesterfield’s illegitimate son; acquaintance and mutual flatterer of Pope; author of the History of the Life of Gustavus Adolphus (1759) and Essays on Husbandry (1764): 94 n. b, 323, 807, 947
Harvey, see Hervey
Harwood, Dr Edward (1729–94), Presbyterian minister and biblical scholar; friend of Joseph Priestley, belonging to the rational wing of dissent in his theological views; pastor at the Presbyterian chapel in Tucker Street, Bristol (1765); regular contributor to the Gentleman’s Magazine; prolific writer whose works include an Introduction to New Testament Studies (1767), A View of Various Editions of the Greek and Roman Classics (1775) and A Liberal Translation of the New Testament(2 vols., 1767): 538
Haslerig, or Hesilrige, Sir Arthur (1601–61), soldier, republican politician and parliamentarian; opponent of Cromwell; exempted from the Act of Indemnity in 1660 and died in the Tower while awaiting trial for treason: 322
Hastie (fl. 1772), a Scottish schoolmaster: 357, 368
Hastings, Warren (1732–1818), Governor General of Bengal; writer in the East India Company’s Bengal service (1750–65); developed proposals for a ‘Professorship of the Persian Language’ at the University of Oxford; stationed in Madras (1769–72) before promotion to Governor General (1772–85); commitment to translation and native customs created a hybrid Anglo-Indian law that partly exists today; negotiated peace to close wars with the Maratha states (1783); impeached on return to England, largely due to Burke’s attacks (1787–95); found not guilty; received later public recognition but no further significant employment: 799, 800, 801
Hawkesbury, Lord, see Jenkinson, Charles
Hawkesworth, Dr John (1715? ~73), writer; close friend of S.J. and Charles Burney; translated Fenelon (1768); member of the Ivy Lane Club (1749); editor of The Adventurer ($$); edited the Works of Swift (6 vols., I755)andthe Voyages of Captain Cook (3 vols., 1773); author of Almoran and Hamet: An Oriental Tale (1761), an influence on S.J.’s Rasselas; voted onto the board of the East India Company (1773): 102 n. a, 107, 124, 129, 132, 133, 137, 322, 375, 393, 433 n. b, 523
Hawkins, Humphrey (1667–1741), usher of Lichfield School: 29
Hawkins, Revd William (1722–1801), writer and Church of England clergyman; professor of poetry at Pembroke College, Oxford (1751-6); one of the earliest Bampton lecturers; prodigious writer of sermons; author of the poem The Thimble (1743) and the plays Henry the Second (1749) and the Siege of Aleppo (1758), the latter being the origin of a feud with Garrick: 46, 614 n. a, 664 and n. a
Hawkins, Sir John (1719–89); music scholar and lawyer; became acquainted with S.J. as a contributor to the Gentleman’s Magazine; founder member of the Ivy Lane Club (1749) and of the Literary Club (1764); contributed notes to S.J.’s Shakespeare (1765); executor of S.J’s will; edited his Works and The Life of Samuel Johnson (both 1787); member of the Madrigal Society (1748–65); chairman of the Middlesex quarter sessions (1765–81); author of A General History of the Science and Practice of Music (5 vols., 1776): 19 and n. b, 20, 27 n. a, 29, 49 n. a, 74 n. a, 83, 88 andn. a, 94 n. a, 106n. b, 107 and n. a, 108 n. a, 114 and n. a, n6n. a, 128, 129,132andn. b, 157n. a, 167, 181 n. b, 182, 187n. b, 220, 251, 252, 269, 279 n. b, 286, 504, 505 n. a, 530 n. b, 648, 841 n. b, 902–4, 944 n. b, 950 and n. b, 970 and n. c, 973, 985, 988 n. a, 989 and n. a, 992 n. a, 999
Hay, Lord Charles (d. 1760), army officer; MP for Haddingtonshire (1741); captain of the ist foot guards (1743); distinguished himself at the battle of Fontenoy (1745); aide-de-camp to George II (1751); Major-General (1757); subject to a court martial, the result of which was not made public (1760); visited by S.J. for advice on his defence: 523, 774
Hay, Sir George (1715–78), judge and politician; friend of Garrick and Hogarth; MP for Stockbridge (1754); king’s Advocate General (1755-6); signed Admiral Byng’s death warrant (1757); a lord of the Admiralty (1756-7); judge of the prerogative court of Canterbury and chancellor of the diocese of Worcester (1764); judge of the High Court of the Admiralty (1773): 187
Hayes, Revd Samuel (c.1749-c. 1795), usher at Westminster School: 17, 621
Hayman, Francis (1708–76), painter, engraver and book illustrator; close friend of Hogarth; specialized in historical painting, canvases with theatrical subjects, and portraiture; illustrated Richardson’s Pamela (1742) and Hanmer’s Shakespeare (1743-4); involved in the foundation of the Society of Artists, later Becoming its president (1765-8): 143 n. b
Heath, James (1757–1834), engraver; produced plates for Bell’s edition of The Poets of Great Britain (109 vols., 1777–83); associate of the Royal Academy (1791); historical engraver to George III (1794); engraved the portrait of S.J. included in J.B.’s ijyoLife: 1000 n.c
Heberden, Dr William (1710–1801), physician; fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (1746); Goulstonian lecturer (1749); member of the Society of Antiquaries (1770); attended S.J. (from 1783); advised George III on his mental derangement (1788); author of Commentaries on the History and Cure of Diseases (published 1802): 429, 888, 889, 890, 907,958, 959,988, 989 n. a
Hector, Edmund (1708–94), surgeon; schoolmate of S.J. at Lichfield; his sister Anne was the subject of S.J.’s first love; lived with S.J. for a period in 1732–3; scribe for S.J.’s Travels in Abyssinia (1735); wrote to J.B. to express gratitude for the pleasure that his Life had afforded him: 26, 28, 30–32, 35 n. a, 36 n. b, 50–51, 54, 55 n. a, 56, 91 and n. a, 95, 507, 508, 510–11, 518, 839, 846, 913, 972–3 and n. a, 974, 989 n. a
Heely, Humphry (1714-c. 1796), husband of the following: 279, 970
Heely, Mrs (Betty Ford) (1712–68), S.J.’s cousin: 279, 970
Henault, Charles Jean Francois (1685–1770), president au parlement de Paris: 465, 482, 489
Henderland, Lord, see Murray, Alexander
Henderson, John (1747–85), actor; a tremendous success at the Theatre Royal in Bath (1772-5); made his London debut as Shylock at the Haymarket Theatre (1777); after two seasons at Drury Lane (1777-9), moved to Covent Garden for six seasons; London career delayed and overshadowed by Garrick: 437 n. a, 897 n. a, 922 n. b
Henderson, John (1757–88), student and eccentric; precocious intellect; conversed for hours with S.J. on visit to Pembroke College, Oxford; habits and learning famous enough to be discussed at length in the Gentleman’s Magazine (1786); massive talent but little or no eventual output: 928
Henn, John (d. 1794), master at Appleby Grammar School: 76 n. a
Henry II, king of England: 135
Henry VIII, king of England: 743
Henry the Navigator, prince of Portugal: 900–901
Henry, Dr Robert (1718–90), Church of Scotland minister and historian; moderator of the general assembly of the Church of Scotland (1774); honorary DD from Edinburgh University (1777); fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1783); author of The History of Great Britain (5 vols., 1771–85), a work of expensive printing and publication problems: 704
Hephiestion: 915
Hercules: 26, 400, 654, 678, 717
Herne, Elizabeth (d. 1792), S.J.’s lunatic cousin: 989 n. a
Herodian (c. AD 165-c. 250), Syrian historian who compiled in Greek a history of the Roman emperors after the death of Marcus Aurelius: 976
Herodotus (c. 480-c. 425 bc), the first great historian of antiquity, and the source of much of our knowledge about the early conflicts between Greece and Persia: 833 n.b
Hertford, Frances, Countess of, later Duchess of Somerset (1699–1754): ^^ n. b
Hervey, Hon. and Revd Henry (1701–48), friend of S.J.: 49 n. b, 62 and n. a
Hervey, Hon. Thomas (1699–1775), politician and pamphleteer; MP for Bury St Edmunds (1733–47); S.J. held a likingfor him and encouraged his matrimonial perseverance; superintendent of the royal gardens (1738); equerry to Queen Caroline (1727): 280 and n.b, 281, 444
Hervey, Lady Emily (1735–1814), daughter of Baron Hervey of Ickworth: 759 n. a
Hesiod, early Greek poet ofrusticlife: 38, 743
Hetherington, Revd William (1698–1778), philanthropist: 415
Heydon, John (fl. i66j), writer on astrology and alchemy, and occultist; staunch royalist; author of The Rosie Crucian (1660) and The Harmony of the World (1662); apologist and publicist for Rosicrucian ideas; attacked by Samuel Parker and Robert Boyle; ultimately, flamboyant populist concerned with self-promotion: 989 n. a
Hickes, George (1642–1715), Nonjuror and antiquary; ground-breaking scholar of Anglo-Saxon: 922
Hierocles (fl. 4th century AD), author of Facetice: 11, 86
Hierocles of Alexandria (fl. 5th century ad), neoplatonic philosopher: 976 n. a
Higgins, Dr,? Bryan Higgins (1737?–1820), physician and chemist: 715, 731
Hill, Aaron (1685–1750), dramatist, writer and entrepreneur: 111 n. b
Hinchliffe, Dr John (1731–94), bishop of Peterborough (1769–); tutor to the Duke of Devonshire (1764–6); chaplain-in-ordinary to George III (1768–9); vice-chancellor of Oxford University (1768–9); opposed to university reform; seen as a progenitor of nineteenth-century ‘Liberalism’; dean of Durham (1788); friendof Horace Walpole: 752 n. a
Hinchman, really Hinckesman, Charles (fl. 1784): 989 n. a
Hitch, Charles (d. 1764), London bookseller and partner of L. Hawes: 104
Hoadly, Dr Benjamin (1706–57), physician and dramatist; author of The Suspicious Husband (1747): 288
Hobbes, Thomas (1588–1679), philosopher; author of The Elements of Law (1640), Of Libertie and Necessitie (1654) and, most significantly, Leviathan (1651); fierce anti-clericalism has led many to believe he was an atheist; moral rules following ‘the laws of nature’ often construed as proto social-Darwinism; influence on wide range of philosophers including Rousseau, Kant and Spinoza: 989 n. a
Hog, William (fl. 1690), Latin poet; oneofthe most prolific Latin writers of the age; author of a Paraphrasis poetica of Milton’s Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained andSamsonAgonistes(1690);Not ableasone of very few Whig Latin poets, along with Joseph Addison: 127
Hogarth, William (1697–1764), painter and engraver; illustrated Samuel Butler’s Hudibras (1726); celebrity madebypictorial narrativesThe Rake’s Progressand The Harlot’s Progress; portrait painter after the English grand manner, including the Graham children (1742) and David Garrick as Richard III (1745); further tackled comic history painting, biblical subjects, the lower classes and, in The Election (1753–8), modern politics and corruption; author of The Analysis of Beauty (1753); often described as the father of British painting: 31 n. a, 85, 136, 712
Holbrook, Revd Edward (1695–1772), usher at Lichfield Grammar School and vicar of St Mary’s, Lichfield: 29
Holder, Mr (?Robert, d. 1797), apothecary: 840, 845 and n. a, 989 n. a
Holinshed, Raphael (d. 1580?), historian and chronicler: 912 n. a, 989 n. a
Hollis, Thomas (1720–74), ‘the strenuous Whig’, political propagandist; fellow of the Royal Society (1757); rational Dissenter; great benefactor to American colleges, particularly Harvard; reprinted and distributed literature from the seventeenth-century republican canon, including Milton and Locke: 32, 817
Home, DrFrancis (1719–1813), physician; fellow (1751) then president (1775–7) of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh; author of An Inquiry into the Nature, Causeand Cure of the Croup(1765), Experiments on Bleaching(1756); professor of materia medica at Edinburgh University (1768); in many ways the quintessential establishment Scottish Enlightenment physician: 13, 166
Home, Henry, see Kames, Henry Home, Lord
Home, John (1722–1808), Church of Scotland minister and playwright; minister of Athelstaneford (1746); author of the tragedy Douglas(1756), akey text in the Scottish literature of sensibility; private secretary to Bute (1757–63); member of the Poker Club; History of the Rebellion, 1745 published posthumously (1802): 240, 434, 542 n. a, 560, 562, 610 n. a
Home, or Hume, Mrs Margaret, James Thomson’s maternal grandmother: 718
Homer (fl. probably 9th century B c); great Greek epic poet and author of The Iliad and The Odyssey: 34, 44, 59, 210, 328, 401, 422, 506 n. a, 558 n. a, 559, 627 andn. b, 628, 663, 702, 703, 771, 780, 933
Homfrey, see Humphry, Ozias
Hooke, Dr Luke Joseph (1716-^6), Roman Catholic theologian; professor of theology at Paris University (1742–51), then Hebrew and Chaldean (1767); author of Religionis naturalis et revelatae principia (2 vols., 1752); host of S.J. in Paris (1775); chief librarian at the Mazarine Library (1778): 475
Hooker, Richard (1554?–!600), theologian and philosopher; cited more frequently in the first edition of the Dictionary than any other author save Locke; author of Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity (1593?); much-celebrated advocate for Anglicanism: 122
Hoole, John (1727–1803), translator; auditor to the East India Company; translated Tasso (1763, 1792), Arioso (1783) and Metastasio (1767); friend of S.J.; member of the Essex Head Club; attended S.J. on his deathbed; author of three, largely unsuccessful, tragedies performed at Covent Garden and the Present State of the English East India Company’s Affairs (1772): 15, 204, 416–17, 441, 538, 709, 802, 811, 812, 867, 901,905, 910,912, 919,962, 989 n. a, 992, 996
Hoole, Revd Samuel (c. 1758–1839), son of the preceding, poet; preacher at St Alban, Wood Street; attended S.J. in his final illness; rector of Poplar Chapel, Middlesex (1803); author of Edward, or, The Curate (1787) and Aurelia, or, The Contest (1783): 989 n. a, 994
Hope, Dr John (1725–86), professor of botany and materia medica, Edinburgh: 908
Hopetoun, John Hope, 2nd Earl of (1704–81): 786 n. b
Horace, Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-8 bc), much-imitated Augustan poet and satirist, whose Ars Poetica exerted a powerful influence over the critical thinking of European theorists of poetry in the seventeenth century; General: 33, 34, 44, 45, 57, 59, 74,110, 115, 122, 123, 218, 274, 302, 371, 450,454, 502, 525, 557, 558 n. a, 604, 627, 646, 652 n. a, 659, 696, 698, 716, 725, 733, 826 n. a, 882, 916, 917, 969 Quotations and allusions: Ars Poetica 123, 450, 557, 558 n. a; epistles 122, 454, 652 n. a, 659; odes 33, 34, 274, 627; satires 58, 302, 525, 826 n.a
Horne, Dr George (1730–92), bishop of Norwich; president of Magdalen College, Oxford (1768); vice-chancellor of Oxford University (1776–80); monarchist; defender of religious orthodoxy; author of Commentary on the Book of Psalms (1776) and Letters on Infidelity (1784): 411, 413, 502, 577, 1004 n. a
Horne, Revd John, see Tooke, John Horne
Horneck, the Misses Catherine (
d. 1798) and Mary (c. 1750–1840), Goldsmith’s friends, ‘Little Comedy’ and ‘The Jessamy Bride’: 219 n. c
Horrebow, Niels (1712–60), Danish traveller and lawyer: 674
Horsley, Dr Samuel (1733–1806), bishop of St Asaph (1802); fellow of the Royal Society (1767), later secretary; member of the Essex Head Club (1783) and part of S.J.’s circle; bishop of St David’s (1788); dean of Winchester and bishop of Rochester (1793); author of A Review of the Case of the Protestant Dissenters (1790); active opponent of slave trade: 903
Horton, Mrs Anne, see Cumberland and Strathearn, Anne, Duchess of
Howard, Charles (1707–71), son of the preceding and a Lichfield lawyer: 48, 644
Howard, Charles (1742–91), son of the preceding and a Lichfield lawyer: 644
Howard, Hon. Edward (fl. 1669), dramatist: 316 n. a
Howard, Sir George (1720?–96), army officer and politician; Colonel of the Buffs (1749); promoted Major-General (1758); promoted Lieutenant General (1760); Governor of Minorca (1766–8);MP for Stamford (1768–96); governorofChel-sea Hospital (1768–95); promoted General (1777); promoted Field Marshal (1793); Privy Councillor (1795); governor of Jersey (1795–6): 462 n. a
Huddesford, DrGeorge (c. 1699–1776), President of Trinity College, Oxford; vice-chancellor: 152 and n. d,153, 173
Huet, Pierre Daniel (1630–1721), bishopof Avranches: 53 n. b, 615
Huggins, William (1696–1761), translator; close friend of Hogarth; translated Orlando Furioso (1755); engaged with Warton after the latter’s disparagement of Ariosto; sometime writer of librettos for oratorios: 203, 766
Hughes, John (1677–1720), writer and librettist; dissenting Whig; secretary to the Commissions of the Peace of the Court of Chancery(1717);Author of panegyrics The Triumph of Peace (1698) and The Court of Nassau (1702) and the tragedy, The Siege of Damascus(1720);translatedLetters of Abelard and Heloise(1713), the basis for Pope’s Eloisa to Abelard (1717); produced the first critical edition of Edmund Spenser’s works (6 vols., 1715); part of the Steele–Addison circle; major libretto was Calypso and Telemachus (1712): 146, 693 n. a, 782 n.a