The Life of Samuel Johnson - James Boswell [745]
Campbell, Hon. and Rev. Archibald (1688–1744), Nonjuring and non-resident bishop of Aberdeen: 375, 922
Campbell, James, of Treesban (d. 1776), J.B.’s brother-in-law: 583, 941
Campbell, John Campbell, 1st Baron (1779–1861), Lord Chancellor and legal historian: 85, 382
Campbell, Miss Jeanie, James Campbell’s daughter: 941
Campbell, Mr, of Auchnaba (fl. 1777): 590, 594
Campbell, Mungo (d. 1769): 625
Campbell, Revd John (1758–1828), minister of Kippen, Stirling: 278 n. a
Campbell, Sir Archibald, of Inverneil (1739–91), army officer and colonial governor; MP for Stirling burghs (1774–80; 1789–91); J.B. acted as his legal adviser; charged to reclaim Georgia (1778); Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica with rank of brigadier-general (1780); appointed general of the line (1783); appointed KB (1785); governor of Madras (1788): 548
Canterbury, Archbishops of, see Cornwallis, Dr Frederick; Laud, Dr William; Secker, Dr Thomas
Canus, Melchior (1509–60), Spanish theologian: 471 and n. a
Capell, Edward (1713–81), literary scholar; deputy inspector of plays after 1737 Licensing Act; very close friend of Garrick; produced edition of Shakespeare at the same time as S.J.’s (10 small octavo vols., 1767–8); donated collection of 245 volumes to Trinity College, Cambridge; author of Notes and Various Readings to Shakespeare (first vol., 1774; completed posthumously and published 1783): 765
Cap(p)acio, G.C. (c.1560– c.1633), Italian author: 447
Caraccioli, Louis Antoine de (1721–1803), French author, topographer; author of Antiquities of Arundel (1766) and Considerations sur l’origine… et les conquests de l’empire Russie (1771): 678
Cardross, Lord, see Buchan, David Steuart Erskine, 11th Earl of
Careless (orCarless), Mrs Ann (1711–88): 510–11, 846–7, 974
Carleton, Captain George (fl. 1672–1713), soldier: 947
Carlisle, bishop of, see Law, Dr Edmund
Carlisle, Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of (1748–1825), politician and diplomatist; largely earned reputation as a rake and through gambling losses; Lord Lieutenant of the East Riding of Yorkshire (1780); sworn on the Privy Council (1777); Lord Lieutenant for Ireland (1780); ally of Fox; author of The Father’s Revenge (1783?), a five-act tragedy praised by S.J.; guardian of the eleven-year-old Lord Byron, later criticized by him in English Bards and Scotch Reviewers for not smoothing his passage into the House of Lords: 825–6, 898–9
Carmarthen, Lord, see Leeds, Francis Godolphin Osborne, 5th Duke of
Carmichael, Miss: 374, 644, 722 and n. b
Caroline, Queen (1683–1737), consort of George II: 100
Carte, Thomas (1686–1754), historian; possible agent for Francis Atterbury, bishop of Rochester; anti-Hanoverian, Jacobite; author of History of England (4 vols., 1747–55) and Life of James, Duke of Ormand (2 vols., 1736): 28, 446, 617n. a, 936
Carter, Elizabeth (1717–1806), poet, translator and writer; friend of S.J., celebrated by her in Greek and Latin epigrams; helped sustain The Rambler; translated Epictetus, the Greek Stoic philosopher (1749–56, pub. 1758), the first translation of his complete works in English; friend of Elizabeth Montagu and other ‘bluestockings’: 72 and n. b, 81, 82,113, 133,613, 816–18, 915
Carter, Mr (fl. 1775–6): 491
Cartwright, Thomas (1535–1603), Puritan divine and religious controversialist; arguably the true progenitor of English presbyterianism: 617 n. a
Castell, Revd Edmund (1606–85), Semitic scholar: 617 n. a
Catcott, George Symes (1729-c.1802), Bristol pewterer: 544
Cathcart, Alan Cathcart, 6th Baron (1628–1709): 483
Cathcart, Charles Shaw Cathcart, 9th Baron (1721–76), army officer and diplomat; representative peer of Scotland (1752–76); high commissioner of the general assembly of the Church of Scotland (1755–63, 1773–6); Lieutenant General (1760); knight of the Thistle (1763); Scotland’s first lord commissioner of the police (1764-8): 711
CatherineII, empress of Russia (1729–96): 594 n. a, 723, 916
Catiline, Lucius Sergius Catilina (d. 62 bc); Roman politician and conspirator, whose attempted coup d’etat ended in defeat