The Life of Samuel Johnson - James Boswell [736]
Basil, St (329–79), early Church father who defended orthodoxy against the teachings of the Arians on the doctrine of the Trinity; bishop of Caesarea: 580, 773
Baskerville, John (1706–75), printer and typographer; first known use of ‘wove’ paper without watermark for several sheets of Virgil (1757); university printer at Cambridge (1758); less scrupulous proofreading as a result of expensive production methods: his editions were often textually flawed: 297
Bate, Revd Henry (Sir Henry Bate Dudley) (1745–1824), journalist: 928
Bateman, Revd Edmund (1704–51), tutor of Christ Church, Oxford: 46
Bath, William Pulteney, Earl of (1684–1764), politician; opponent of Walpole; launched the oppositional journal The Craftsman; friend of Swift, Gray and Pope; unwavering advocate of liberty: 88, 653
Bath and Wells, bishops of, see Ken, DrThomas; Still, Dr John
Bathiani, or Bathyani, Hungarian nobleman: 470
Bathurst, Allen Bathurst, 1st Earl (1684–1775), politician; critic of Walpole; supporter of Atterbury; ardent supporter of principles of party; friend of Congreve, Swift and Sterne; sketched by Sterne in the third of his Letters to Eliza (1775); addedbyPope to the third of his Moral Essays: 87, 711, 740 and n. a, 741
Bathurst, Dr Ralph (1620–1704), president of Trinity College, Oxford; involved in foundation of the Royal Society (1662); vice-chancellor of Oxford University; wrote prefatory verses to Hobbes’s Human Nature (1650): 989 n. a
Bathurst, Dr Richard (d. 1762), physician and writer, son of Colonel Richard Bathurst; brought S.J.’s servant, Frank Barber, to England from Jamaica; member of Ivy Lane Club and one of S.J.’s closest friends: 12, 105, 107, 129, 131 n. b, 132, 133 and n.a, 137, 138, 203, 778, 780
Bathurst, Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl (1714–94), Lord Chancellor (1771); took family seat at Cirencester, Gloucester; consistently voted against Walpole; author of The Case of the Unfortunate Sophia Swordfeager (1771): 344, 598
Bathurst, Richard (d. c. 1775), colonel and father of Dr Richard Bathurst, and West Indian planter: 131 n. b, 778
Battista, Angeloni, see Shebbeare, Dr John
Baxter, Revd Richard (1615–91), ejected minister and religious writer; opposed Cromwell; The Saints Everlasting Rest (1650) his best-known work and a canonical piece in devotional literature; imprisoned in 1669; also author of the classic of puritan evangelism, the Call to the Unconverted (1658); licensed to preach publicly for the first time in 1672; exceptionally prolific author of over 130books;Voluminous letter writer;Demonstrated affinities with the Cambridge Platonists and part of the development of rationalism that would lead to Locke and the deists; admired by Wesley and revered by nineteenth-century Dissenters: 114, 396, 412, 866, 886, 887, 893, 905
Baxter, William (1650–1723), classicist and antiquary; produced annotated editions of Anacreon (1695) and Horace (1701); contributed to antiquarian issues inPhilosophical Transactions; left unfinished Welsh Dictionary at death: 558 n.a
Bayle, Pierre (1647–1706), French Protestant scholar and philosopher: 155, 225, 1005
Bayley, Hester (d. 1785): 844
Bayley or Bayly, Sir Nicholas, 2nd Baronet (1709–82), MP for Anglesey, 1734– 41, 1747–61: 713
Beach, Thomas (d. 1737), poet and wine-merchant: 72, 388
Beattie, Dr James (1735–1803), poet and philosopher; achieved fame in the late 1760s and early 1770s through his Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth (1770, polemical attack on ‘sceptical philosophy’ and Hume in particular) and The Minstrel (1771-4, poem in Spenserian stanzas): 248, 260–62, 335, 337, 339, 363, 368, 369, 399 andn. a, 402–3, 562, 587, 706, 758 and n. c, 819, 867, 942, 945, 946
Beattie, Mrs, wife of Dr Beattie: 337, 339 andn. a, 340
Beauclerk, Lady Diana (Spencer) (1734–1808), artist and wife of Topham Beauclerk; illustrated Walpole’s The Mysterious Mother and Dryden’s Fables (1797): 387, 392, 418,439, 751, 816
Beauclerk, Hon. Topham (1739–80), book collector; original