The Life of Samuel Johnson - James Boswell [735]
Barber, Mrs Elizabeth (1756?–1826), wife of the preceding: 130, 569
Barbeyrac, Jean (1674–1844), French savant: 155
Barclay, Alexander (1475?-! 552), poet and scholar: 150
Barclay, James (c.1747-c.1770), a young student of Oxford who wrote An Examination of Mr Kenrick’s Review of Mr Johnson’s Edition of Shakespeare (1766) in defence of S.J.: 260
Barclay, Robert (1648–90), religious writer and colonial governor; converted to Catholicism in Paris; later renounced it to become an Aberdeen Quaker; leader in campaign to transform Quakerism from a loose, ecstatic movement into a tight, disciplined sect; admired by Voltaire; governor of East New Jersey; author of Theses theologicae (1674) and An Apology for the True Christian Divinity (1675): 509, 828 and n. a
Barclay, Robert (c.1740–1828), brewer: 828 n. a, 965, 989 n. a
Barclay, Mrs Robert, wife of the preceding: 965
Bard, a reverend (Tasker, Revd William): 726
Baretti, Giuseppe Marc’Antonio (1719–89), critic and miscellaneous writer: 13, 14, 15, 141, 149, 151, 164, 180, 188, 193 and n. a, 194, 197, 202–3, 2°5, 265, 292, 296, 3o8, 309, 370, 417, 504, 522, 528, 565 n. c, 571, 610, 616, 780, 942
Barnard, Dr Edward (1717–81), headmaster of Eton; increased the numbers at Eton from around 350 to 550; described by Horace Walpole as ‘the Pitt of masters’; subsequently appointed by George III as provost of Eton (1765): 754
Barnard, DrThomas (1728–1806), dean of Derry, afterwards bishop of Killaloe, Limerick, etc.: 59, 252, 427, 652, 563–4, 817, 818, 822, 826 and n. b, 831, 870–71
Barnard, Sir Frederick Augusta (1743–1830), king’s librarian: 281 and n. a, 282 n. a, 284
Barnes, Joshua (1654–1712), Greek scholar and antiquary; connected biblical and classical antiquity; author of Aulikokatoptron, sive, Estherae historia (1679), a 1,600-line rendition of the book of Esther into Homeric hexameter; published a History of Edward III (1688) as well as textual editions of Euripides (1694), Anacreon(i705) and Homer (1711): 677, 772
Barnes, Rachel, see Lloyd, Mrs Sampson
Barnston, Letitia (c.1710–82), niece of the Revd Roger Barnston, prebendary of Chester and rector of Condover: 746 and n. a
Barrett, William (1733–89), Bristol surgeon: 544
Barrington, Hon. Daines (1727–1800), judge, antiquary and naturalist; author of Observations on the Statutes, Chiefly the More Ancient (ij66), a significant contribution to legal history; fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and the Royal Society (both 1767); unreliable translation of King Alfred’s Orosius (1773); established The Naturalist’s Journal (1767); passionate interest in arctic exploration; ‘virtuoso’ or ‘dilettante’ intellectual: 393, 693, 825, 903 and n. a
Barrow, Dr Isaac (1630–77) mathematician, theologian and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge: 821 n. a
Barrowby, Dr William (1682–1751), physician: 925
Barry, James (1741–1806), RA, history painter, printmaker and author; produced six paintings to decorate the Great Room at the Adelphi (1777); professor of painting at Royal Academy; later expelled (1799); greatly admired by S.J.: 874–5, 886 and n. a, 902
Barry, Sir Edward (1696–1776), physician-general to forces in Ireland; professor of physic at University of Dublin (1745 –61); MP at Irish House of Commons for Charleville, Co. Cork: 536 and n. a
Barry, Spranger (1719–77), actor and impresario; famed for Othello and Romeo in Garrick productions; later fell out acrimoniously and joined Covent Garden company at end of the 1773–4 season: 1 ion. a, 448
Barter, James (fl. 1725), a miller and ex-Baptist preacher who wrote against Elwall: 348
Bartolozzi, Francis (1727–1815), engraver; established vogue for dotted prints or ‘stipples’; arrived in London in 1764 after making fame in