The Life of Samuel Johnson - James Boswell [738]
Benzo, a mistake for Benzoni, Gerolamo (1519–c.1572): 976n. a
Berenger, Richard (d.1782), courtierand equestrian; equerrytoGeorge III;wroteA NewSystemof Horsemanship(1754) andThe History and Art of Horsemanship (1771); gentleman of the horse to the king (1760); contributed poems to Robert Dodsley’s A Collection of Poems by Several Hands (1758): 812, 813 and n. a, 814
Beresford, Mrs and Miss: 280
Beresford, Revd Mr, tutor to the 5th Dukeof Bedford: 677
Beresford, Richard, Member of Congress (1783–4), and fatherof the above: 920
Berkeley, Dr George (1685–1753), Church of England bishop of Cloyne (1734), philosopher, figurehead of immaterialism; author of Alciphron; Tory ‘highly esteemed’ by the Jacobites; fellow of Trinity College, Dublin: 248, 330, 612, 617 n. a, 777
Beroaldo, Filippo, the elder (1453–1595), scholar: 475
Berriman, Dr William (1688–1750), divine: 617 n.a
Berwick, James Fitzjames, Duke of (1670–1734), army officer and Jacobite; colonel of the Royal Horse Guards (1688); knight of the Garter (1688); commander of French troops dispatched by Louis XIV to assist Philip V in Spain (1703); received greater attention after posthumous publication of Memoirs (1777): 678
Betterton, Thomas (1635?–1710), actor and theatre manager; greatest English actor between Burbage and Garrick; administrated for William Davenant’s heir until 1677; set up and ran Lincoln’s Inn Fields theatre (1695–1705); implemented the developmentof the spectacle in English theatre that had already been accomplished in Italy and Spain: 623
Bevil, Revd William (d. 1822): 799
Bewley, William (1726–83), surgeon, apothecary and writer; contributor to the Monthly Review, friend of Charles Burney, correspondent of Joseph Priestley: 838
Beza, Theodore de (1519–1605); author, translator, educator and theologian; succeeded Jean Calvin as leader of the Protestants at Geneva: 416
Bickerstaffe, Isaac (1733-?! 812), homosexual librettist; created Love in a Village (1762), a full-scale comic opera, Love in the City (1767), and The Padlock (1768), produced by Garrick at Drury Lane: 304, 434
Bicknell, John (d. 1787),? author of Musical Travels by Joel Collier (q.v.): 170
Bindley, James (1737–1818), book collector; commissioner of the stamp office (1765); self-avowed ‘incurable Bibliomaniac’: 9
Bingham, Sir Charles, see Lucan, Charles Bingham, ist Earl of
Binning, Charles Hamilton, Lord, later 8th Earl of Haddington (1753–1828), Langton’s brother-in-law: 359, 702
Birch, Dr Thomas (1705–66), compiler of histories and biographer; vicar of Ulting in Essex (1732); one of three editors of the General Dictionary, Historical and Critical (1732); elected to the Royal Society (1735); secretary for the Royal Society (1752–65): 13, 20, 21, 81,82 and n. a, 87 and n. c, 88 andn. c, 92, 105, 106 and n. a, 125, 126, 155, 166, 617 n. a
Blacklock, Dr Thomas (1721–91), poet and writer; author of An Essay on Universal Etymology (1756) and Poems on Several Occasions (1746); met S.J. and discussed the difficulties in compiling a dictionary: 179, 245
Blackmore, Sir Richard (c. 1655–1729), physician and writer; author of Prince Arthur: An Heroick Poem in Ten Books (1695); accused by Dryden of plagiarism; later wrote Eliza: An Epic Poem in Ten Books (1705) and The Nature of Man (1711); started The Lay-Monk with John Hughes (1713): 315, 316 and n. a, 724, 782 n. a, 793–4
Blackstone, Sir William (1723–80), legal writer, judge and Tory; established English law as an academic discipline at Oxford; author of Commentaries on the Laws of England, twenty-two successive editions of which appeared in England and Ireland by 1854: 46, 451 n. a, 484 n. a, 495, 730, 814
Blackwall, Revd Anthony (1674–1730), classical scholar and schoolmaster; produced 1706 edition of the verse of Theognis; author of An Introduction to the Classics (1718) and A