The Life of Samuel Johnson - James Boswell [746]
Cato the Censor, Marcus Porcius Cato (234–149 bc), politician and moral reformer, inveterate enemy of Carthage: 782 n. a, 808
Cator, John (1730–1806), timber merchant and friend of Mr Thrale: 810, 937
Catullus, Gaius Valerius (c.84-c.54bc), Latin lyricist and poetic innovator, who exerted great influence over his Roman successors, and also over early modern English lyric poetry: 864
Caufield, Miss (fl. 1777): 573
Cave, Edward (1691–1754), printer and magazine proprietor; life chronicled in biography by S.J.; inspector of franks at the Post Office (1723–45); founded the Gentleman’s Magazine that gave S.J. his break (1731); published Benjamin Franklin’s Experiments and Observations on Electricity (1753); S.J. was at his deathbed: 12, 53 andn. d, 60, 66–8, 72–3, 78–81, 78 n. a, 80 n. b, 87~8, 94n.b, 101, 104,118, 133, 388 n. a, 697, 940, 994
Cave, Miss, Edward Cave’s grandniece: 53 n. d
Cavendish, Sir Henry (1732–1804), parliamentary reporter: 379
Cawston, Windham’s servant: ^^
Caxton, William (i422?~9i), printer, merchant and diplomat; first Englishman to print books, bringing the printing press to England in 1475 or 1476; governor of the English nation in Bruges (1465); author of History of Troy, the first printed book in English: 661
Cecil, Colonel, friend of Colonel T. Prendergast: 357
Centlivre, Susannah (1667?–1723), actress and dramatist of Whiggish sympathies: 767
Cervantes, Saavedra, Miguel de (1547–1616): 459, 519
Chalmers, George (1742–1825), antiquary and broadly Tory political writer; author of Annals of the Present United Colonies (1780), Introduction to the History of the Revolt of the Colonies (1782) and Caledonia (1807–24, a regional survey of Scotland); fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (1791); fellow of the Royal Society (1791): 87 n. d
Chamberlayne, Edward (d. 1782), Secretary of the Treasury: 817 1156
Chamberlayne, Revd George (1739–1815): 922
Chambers, Catherine (1708–67), Mrs Johnson’s servant: 285
Chambers, Ephraim (d. 1740), encyclopaedist; published Proposalsfor acyclopae-dia that S.J. later claimed ‘formed his style’ (1726); published Cyclopaedia in 1728; fellow of the Royal Society (1729); dubbed byDean Stanley as the ‘Father of Cyclopaedias’: 81, 122
Chambers, Sir Robert (1737–1803), jurist and judge; friend of S.J.’s; won Vinerian scholarship at Oxford University with letter of recommendation from S.J. (1758); became the twelfth memberof the Literary Club (1768); second judge in Bengal (1774); knighted by patent (1777); president of the Asiatic Society of Bengal (1797); Chief Justice of Bengal (1791): 148–9, 179 and n. c, 198, 252, 276, 287, 400–402, 406, 408, 530, 801 and n. a, 802, 953
Chambers, SirWilliam (1726–96), architect;first European tostudy Chinese archi-tecturefirsthand; refined English Palladianism; authorofTreatise on Civil Architecture (1759) and Designs of Chinese Buildings, Furniture, Dresses, Machines and Utensils (1757); architect to Princess Augusta at Kew (1757); fellow of the Royal Society (1776); spent final years dedicated to project at Somerset House (1775–95): 14, 867–8, 867 and n. a, 825
Chamier, Anthony (1725–80), under-secretary of State: 251, 563, 586, 640, 660
Chandler, Dr Samuel (1693–1766), Nonconformist divine: 617 n.a
Chapone, Hester (n e´ eMulso) (1727–1801), writer; admired byS.J., who quoted a stanza of ‘To Stella’ to illustrate ‘quatrain’ in his Dictionary; close friend of Samuel Richardson; author of Letters on the Improvement of the Mind (1773) and mouthpiece of female authority, marriage rights and sexual fulfilment: 113, 898–9
Chappe d’Auteroche, Jean (1722–69), astronomer: 707
Charlemont, JamesCaufield, 1stEarlof (1728–99), politician; partofartistic circle in Rome that included Sir Joshua Reynolds, Robert Adam and William Chambers; follower of Pitt; raised to earl in Irish peerage (1763); captain of the first Armaghcompany(1779);keyfigureintheWhigClubfoundedinIreland(1789); founder member and president of the Royal Irish Academy (1785): 252, 385, 714–15, 807, 808
Charles I (1600–49), kingof England: