The Life of Samuel Johnson - James Boswell [748]
Cholmondeley, George James (1752–1830), son of the following: 953 andn. c
Cholmondeley, Mrs Mary (n e´ e Woffington) (c.1729–1811), wife of the Hon. and Revd Robert Cholmondeley: 326, 662, 664–5, 695
Christian, Revd Mr, of Docking, Norfolk: 289
Christie, James (1730–1803), auctioneer; friend of Garrick, Gainsborough and Reynolds; partnerofRobert Answell (1777–84); valued collection and paintings assembled by Sir Robert Walpole at £40, 000 and found buyer in Catherine the Greatof Russia (1788): 989n. a
Churchill, Charles (1731–64), poet; friendofGarrick;launchedNorthBritonwith John Wilkes (1762); author of The Rosciad (1761) and The Ghost (first 2 vols. 1762), a rambling satire casting S.J. asPomposo, one of its main targets; arrested for criticism of the King’s speech at the closing of Parliament (1763): 74, 172, 210, 216, 222, 224, 225 n. a, 254, 296 n.a, 645, 658
Churchill, John, see Marlborough, John Churchill, 1st Duke of
Churton, RevdRalph (1754–1831), Church of England clergyman and theological writer; biographer; contributor to the Gentleman’s Magazine; archdeacon of St David’s (1805); author of A Short Defence of the Church of England (1795): 399 n.a, 880 n.b, 929 and n. a
Cibber, Colley (1671–1757), actor, writer, theatre manager; massively influential figure; Whig; played overa hundred parts asadecorative, mannered actor; established new company at the new Queen’s Theatre (1709); as playwright, wrote and starred in Love’s Last Shift (1696), and version of Richard III survived well into the twentieth century; significant contribution to development of sentimental comedy; Poet Laureate (1730); friends with Samuel Richardson; disliked by S.J.; long-standing quarrel with Pope; chief target of the fourth book of The Dunciad (1742): 86, 100 n. a, 140, 213, 288, 307, 434, 444, 513, 534 and n. a, 557–8, 622, 666, 896, 920
Cibber, Mrs Susannah Maria (1714–66), actress; wife of Theophilus; developed her artistry considerably with Garrick; took envied role of Polly Peachum in Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera; Cordelia to Garrick’s Lear (1749); second only to Garrick on an annual salaryof £315: 111, 307
Cibber, Theophilus (1703–58), actor and playwright; son of Colley; manager at Drury Lane from 1732; remembered kindly by very few; largely a hack writer; famous for Roles of Pistol in both parts ofHenry IV and Lord Foppington inThe Careless Husband: 106, 534, 584
Cicero, Marcus Tullius (106–43 bc), Roman statesman, philosopher and author; one of the greatest orators of antiquity: 501, 692, 714, 761, 938, 972, 975, 976 n. a, 1002
Clanranald, family of: 428
Clapp, Mrs Mary (d. 1781): 294, 320
Clare, Viscount (Robert Nugent, Earl Nugent) (c.1702–88): 332, 691
Clarendon, Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of (1609–74), politician and historian; with Falkland and Colepeper, partofCharles I’s innermost Circle of advisers; knighted and sworn of the Privy Council (1643); escaped to Jersey (1646); author of the royalist History of Rebellion (pub. 1702); Lord Chancellor (1658); part of Charles II’s junto on the Restoration (1660); created Baron Hyde of Hindon (1660); created Viscount Cornbury and EarlofClarendon (1661); scapegoat for much of the discontent in the mid to late 1660s; impeached for high treason (1667); exiled to France: 161, 302, 491, 663, 714, 782 n. a, 936
Clark, Alderman Richard (1739–1831), lawyer and chamberlain of London; elected Alderman of the Broad Street ward (1776); Lord Mayor of London (1784); president of Christ’s hospital (1784); fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (1785); friend of S.J.; proposed by S.J. for membership of the Essex Head Club: 905
Clark, John (d. 1807), Ossianic controversialist: 16, 901
Clarke, Dr Samuel (1675–1729), theologian and philosopher; opponent of Calvinism and High Church preoccupation with ritual; rector of St James’s, Westminster (1709); delivered the Boyle lectures (1704– 5); doubted the full divinity of Christ in The Scripture-Doctrine of the Trinity (1712); Newtonian; published correspondence with Leibnitz (1717): 4, 44, 211,