The Life of Samuel Johnson - James Boswell [741]
Boyse, Revd Joseph (1660–1728), Presbyterian minister: 617 n. a
Boyse, Samuel (1708–49), poet; author of Translations and Poems (1731) and Deity(1739), along poem in heroic couplets: 993 n. a
Bradley, Revd James (1693–1762), astronomer: 617 n. a
Bradshaw, William (fl. 1700), hack writer: 873 n. b
Braithwaite, Daniel (c. 1731–1817), of the Post Office: 917
Bramhall, Dr John (1594–1663), Archbishop of Armagh; advocated the adoption by the Irish Church of the Thirty-nine Articles and English canons of 1604; con-verser with Hobbes on liberty and necessity; author of A Vindication of True Liberty from Antecedent and Extrinsical Necessity (1655); remembered chiefly by association with Ussher, Laud, Hobbes and Wentworth: 313
Bramston, James (1694?–1744), poet and Church of England clergyman; deacon at Oxford (1720); priest at Winchester (1721); complimented by Pope in The Dunciad; author of The Art of Politicks (1729) and The Man of Taste (1733): 45 n. a
Brandt, Sebastian (1458–1521), poet and lawyer: 150
Brett, Anna Margaretta (d. 1743), daughter of Colonel Brett and mistress of George I: 100 and n. a
Brett, Dr Thomas (1667–1744), bishop of the Nonjuring Church of England; active in nonjuror movement until death; author of The Review of the Lutheran Principles: 922
Brett, Lieutenant-Colonel Henry (d. 1724): 100 n. a
Brett, Mrs, wife of the above, see Macclesfield, Countess of
Bridgen, Edward (d. 1787), husband of Richardson’s daughter: 198
Bridgen, Mrs Martha, nee Richardson (1736–85): 198
Bristol, bishops of, see Newton, Dr Thomas; Smalridge, Dr George
Bristol, John Hervey, 1st Earl of (1665–1751), staunch Whig politician and landowner; MP for Bury St Edmunds until created Baron Hervey of Ickworth; opponent of Walpole government: 62, 280
Broadley, Captain (fl. 1778), of Lincolnshire: 717
Brocklesby, Dr Richard (1722–97), physician; licentiate of Royal College of Physicians (1754); physician to the army (1758); founder of Essex Head Club with S.J., who was among his patients; author of Reflections on Antient and Modern Musick with Application to the Care of Disease (1749) and Oeconomical and Medical Observations (1764): 453, 862, 889, 890, 891, 897, 902, 907–8, 910, 914, 963, 949, 974, 988, 989 and n. a, 996–7
Brooke, Henry (1703?-83), sentimental writer and playwright; achieved notoriety with Gustavus Vasa: The Deliverer of his Country (1739), a play regarded as oppositional to Walpole; greater fame followed The Fool of Quality (5 vols., 1766–70); later quarrelled with Garrick; part of the Anglo-Irish class of mid-eighteenth-century writers: 10, 82
Broome, William (1689–1745), translator, poet and clergyman; translated Books 1 o and 11 of The Iliad into Miltonic verse (1712); associate in Pope’s translation ofThe Odyssey (1722); later attacked by Pope in TheDunciad(1728): 745, 789
Broughton, Revd Hugh (1549–1612), Puritan divine: 617 n. a
Broughton, RevdThomas (1704–74), divine: 617 n. a
Brown, Dr John (1715–66), author and moralist; two major plays have failed to retain literary interest since death: Barbarossa (1754), Athelstan (1756); stylish and skilful in An Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times (1757) and An Essay on Satire Occasion’d by the Death of Mr Pope (1745); utility and God were at the core of his moral theory: 329, 617 n. a
Brown, J.B.’s clerk: 815
Brown, Lancelot (1715–83), known as ‘Capability Brown’, the classic English landscape gardener and architect; landscaped Blenheim, Oxfordshire; works characterized by principles of comfort and elegance and epitomized much of early eighteenth-century design: 504, 739
Brown, Revd Robert (d. 1777), minister of the Scottish Church at Utrecht: 265, 679
Browne, Isaac Hawkins, the elder (1705–60), poet: 443
Browne, Isaac Hawkins, the younger (1745–1818), politician and industrialist; supporter of Pitt; sheriff for Shropshire (1783); colliery owner and ironmaster: 914
Browne, Patrick ($$), physician and botanist; author of The Civil and Natural History of Jamaica