The Life of Samuel Johnson - James Boswell [732]
Amory, Dr Thomas (1701–74), Nonconformist divine: 617 n. a
Amyatt, Dr John (c.1732–1810), physician: 201 n. a
Anacreon (fl. sixth century bc), lyric poet whose work survives only in fragments, dealing chiefly with the pleasures of love and wine: 368, 855, 895, 909
Anderson, John (1726–96), natural philosopher; chair of natural philosophy at Glasgow University (1757), voting for himself; hatched grandiose and impractical scheme to found new university at Glasgow; nicknamed Jolly Jack Phosphorus; active in Glasgow literary society; member of the royal societies of London and Edinburgh, the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and the Natural History Society of London; author of the Institutes of Physics (1777): 585
Andrews, Dr Francis (d. 1774), provost of Trinity College, Dublin: 257
Angell, Captain Henry (d. 1777), RN of the Stag, frigate: 186
Angell, John, the elder (d. 1764), writer on shorthand; stenographer; published Stenography, or, Shorthand Improved (1758), a work to which S.J. subscribed: 379, 669
Anne (1665–1714), queen of Great Britain and Ireland; fourth child and second daughter of James II; younger sister of Mary II, wife of William of Orange, later William III; married to Prince George of Denmark; reconciled to William after the death of Mary (1694); acceded to the throne on William’s death in 1702; early ally of the Tories; presided over the peace treaty of Utrecht (1713), announcing Britain as a major world power; twelve-year reign ushered in eighteenth-century peace and prosperity after the warring and uncertainty that closed the previous century: 28, 29, 225, 594
Anson, George, Baron (1697–1762), naval officer and politician; rear admiral (1745); vice-admiral (1746); Commander of the Squadrons in the Channel; driving force behind the Admiralty board of 1744; full admiral (1749); vice-admiral of Great Britain (1750); first lord of the Admiralty (1751–62); made unpopular by the loss of Minorca: 726
Anspach, Elizabeth, Margravine of, see Craven, Baroness
Antoninus, Marcus Aurelius, see Marcus Aurelius
Apicius, the famous epicure who lived during the reign of the emperor Tiberius: 503
Apollonius Rhodius (c.295–215 bc), poet and librarian; author of The Argo-nautica, a Greek epic on the subject of Jason, which influenced Virgil: 158 and n. a, 401
Arblay, Mme d’, see Burney, Frances
Arbuthnot, Dr John (1667–1735), physician and satirist; intimate friend of Swift; author of five best-selling ‘John Bull’ pamphlets in support of Robert Harley; formed the ‘Scriblerus Club’ with Swift, Pope, Parnell, Grey and Lord Treasurer Oxford; co-wrote Three Hours After Marriage with Pope and Gay (1717); accomplished and witty letter-writer; described by S.J. in the Life of Pope as ‘a man of great comprehension, skilful in his profession, versed in the sciences, acquainted with ancient literature and able to animate his mass of knowledge by a bright and active imagination’: 225, 460
Argenson, Antoine Rene´ de Voyer, Marquis de Paulmy d’ (1722–87), statesman and bibliophile: 471
Argyll, Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of (1682–1761): 107, 557
Argyll, Jane (Warburton), Duchess of (c.1683–1767), wife of the 2nd Duke of Argyll: 134
Argyll, John Campbell, 5th Duke of (1723–1806): 573–4
Ariosto, Ludovico (1473–1533), Italian poet and author of Orlando Furioso (1516): 151, 766
Aristotle (384–322 bc), Greek philosopher: 109n.b,538, 680, 769, 821, 976n.a
Armagh, Archbishops of, see Stuart, Hon. and Revd William; Ussher, Dr James
Armstrong, Dr John (1709–79), poet and physician: 186 n. e, 584
Arnauld, Antoine (1612–94), Jansenist theologian: 711
Arnold, Dr Thomas (1742–1816), physician and mad-doctor; physician at Leicester Infirmary (1771); took over father’s mad-house in Leicester (1766); major work, Observations on the Nature, Kinds, Causes, and Prevention of Insanity, Lunacy, or Madness, 2 vols. (1782, 1786);