The Life of Samuel Johnson - James Boswell [749]
Clarke, John (1687–1734), schoolmaster and scholar: 58
Clarke, Revd William (1696–1771), antiquary: 617 n. a
Clavius, Christopher (1537–1612), mathematician: 502
Claxton, John (d. 1811), Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries: 393
Clayton, Dr Robert (1695–1758), bishop of Clogher: 617 n. a
Clement XIV, Pope, see Ganganelli, Giovanni Vincenzo
Clement, William (fl. 1765), fellow of Trinity College, Dublin: 257
Clenardus, Nicholas (1493? -1542), philologist: 773
Clerk, Sir Philip Jennings, see Jennings-Clerke, Sir Philip
Clermont, Lady (fl. 1780): 753
Clive, Mrs (1711–85), actress; Fielding wrote several parts for her; Polly Peachum in The Beggar’s Opera (1732); embroiled in the ‘Polly war’ as Theophilus Cibber tried to claim the role for his wife (1736); career stabilized with Garrick from 1747 onwards; one of the very best actresses of her generation: 766, 896
Clive, Robert Clive, Baron (1725–74), governor of Bengal: 704, 713, 739
Cobb, Mrs (1718–93), Lichfield friend of S.J.: 469, 514, 745, 844, 890
Cobham, Sir RichardTemple, Viscount (1675–1749), soldier, landowner and politician; creator of the house and park at Stowe; adversary of Walpole: 711
Cochrane, Lieut. Gen. James (1690–1758), J.B.’s grand-uncle: 228
Coffey, Mr, possibly Charles (d. 1745): 668
Cohausen, Dr J. H. (1665–1750), German physician: 493
Coke, Sir Edward or Lord (1552–1634), judge and legal writer: 344, 526 n. b, 935
Cole, Henry (fl. 1784): 989 n. a
Colebrooke, Sir George (1729–1809), banker; MP for Arundel (1754–74); director (1767) and chairman (1769, 1770,1772) of the East India Company, aperiod that coincided with the company’s collapse; chirographer to the court of Common Pleas (1766); ultimately bankrupt (1777): 475
Collier, Jeremy (1650–1726), anti-theatrical polemicist and bishop of theNonjuring Church of England; opposed the Glorious Revolution; opponent of Dryden; author of Essays upon Several Moral Subjects (1697) and A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage (1698); considered behaviour on the stage obscene, blasphemous and offensively sexual; tried to pioneer a scheme to unite the Nonjuring Church of England with Eastern Orthodox Churches (1716 onwards): 922 n. b
Collier, Joel, pseudonym: 170
Collins, William (1721–59), poet, admired by and friend of S.J.; author of Persian Eclogues (1742) and ‘Ode, to a Lady’; suffered from growing, undefined madness from 1751: 15, 150 and n. b, 203, 204, 464
Collins, RevdJohn (b. c.1714), fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford: 147
Colman, George, the elder (1732–94), playwright and theatre manager; co-founder of the St James’s Chronicle (1761); friend of Garrick; co-manager as patentee of the Covent Garden theatre from 1767; first to stage She Stoops to Conquer (1773); took over the Little Theatre in the Haymarket from Samuel Foote (1777); most famous as playwright for co-writing The Clandestine Marriage (ij66) with Garrick; member of the Club: 117, 195, 252, 433, 442, 571, 696–7, 768, 772, 981, 999
Colson, John (1680–1760), mathematician and translator; elected member of Emmanuel College, Cambridge (1728); master of new mathematical school at Rochester (1709), for which Gilbert Walmsley recommended Garrick and S.J.; first Taylor lecturer at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge (1739); Lucasian professor at Cambridge (1739): 60 and n. a
Columbus, Christopher: 900
Colvil, John (1695–1783), J.B.’s tenant: 855
Combabus: 653 n. a
Conde, Louis Joseph de Bourbon, 8e Prince de (1736–1818); one of the princely emigres during the French Revolution: 472, 477
Confucius (551–479 bc), China’s most famous teacher, philosopher and political theorist: 684
Congreve, family of: 29
Congreve, Revd Charles (1708–77): 29, 510
Congreve, William (1670–1729), playwright and poet; author of The Double Dealer (1693), Love for Love (1694) and, most famously, The Way of the World (1700); attacked Jeremy Collier; admired ambivalently by S.J.; friend and mentor to Swift and Pope; considered with Wycherley and Etherege as one of the three pre-eminent writers