The Life of Samuel Johnson - James Boswell [751]
Cradock, Joseph (1742–1826), writer; author of Village Memoirs (1774) and the tragedy Zobeide (1771); possessed a considerable library and a talent for acting: 538, 539
Craggs, James, the elder (1657–1721); politician and government official; private secretary to the Duke of Marlborough; active in the East India Company; Postmaster-General; implicated in the South Sea Bubble; said to have committed suicide; at death his estate was valued at the then prodigious sum of £1, 500,000: 93
Craggs, James, the younger (1686–1721), diplomatist and politician; secretary to the envoy in Spain (1708); member of the Hanover Club in the House of Commons; Secretary of State for the South and Privy Councillor (1718); friends with Pope, who provided verses for his tomb and praised him for a ‘worthy nature’ and ‘disinterested mind’: 93
Craig, James (1740–95), architect: 718
Craig, William, father of the preceding: 718
Crashaw, Richard (1613?–49), poet;fellowofPeterhouse(1635);bestremembered fordevotional poetry and involvementinLaudianCambridge; Roman Catholic: 688 n. a
Craven, Elizabeth, Baroness (1750–1828), dramatist: 530 and n. a
Cromwell, Oliver (1599–1658), Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland; effectively the senior official in six parliamentarian heartland counties of East Anglia by 1643; famed for his striking leadership ofthe New Model Army at the battleofNaseby(14June1645);regicide;Lieutenant General and most powerful man in England (1649); led legendary and bloody campaign in Ireland (1649– 50); Lord Protector (1653–8); turned down the crown: 11, 86, 507, 892 and n. a
Crosbie, Andrew (1736–85), lawyer and antiquary; discriminating book collector; founder and first fellow of the Society of Antiquaries at Edinburgh; impressed S.J. with his knowledge of alchemy; Nonconformist; intimate friend and distant relation of J.B.: 462, 573
Crouch, Mrs (Anna Maria Phillips) (1763–1805), singer and actress; played Polly Peachum in The Beggar’s Opera at the Royal Theatre, Liverpool (1780); appeared in the Clandestine Marriage at Drury Lane (1784); her singing never created as much impression asher beauty: 887 and n. a
Crousaz, Jean Pierre de (1663–1750), Swiss theologian: 11, 80–81, 91, 834
Crowley, Mary, see Lloyd, Mrs Sampson
Croxall, DrSamuel (d. 1752), author: 617 n. a
Cruikshank, William Cumberland (1745–1800), anatomist; successful teacher; author of The Anatomy of the Absorbing Vessels of the Human Body (1786); attended S.J. in his final illness; enjoyed the company of literary men but prone to bouts of melancholy: 884, 894, 967, 988, 989 n. a
Cullen, Dr William (1710–90), chemist and physician; professor of medicine at Glasgow University (1751); lecturer at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary; at the forefront of the mid-eighteenth-century fascination with the nervous system; fellow of the Royal Society (1777); author of Synopsis nosologiae methodicae (1769): 460, 614, 907–8
Cullen, Robert, Lord Cullen (d. 1810), judge and essayist; eldest son of Dr William Cullen; member of the Mirror Club; judge of the Court of Session (1796); famously good mimic; curator of the Advocates’ Library (1770–75): 342, 590, 638
Cumberland, Richard (1732–1811), playwright and novelist; author of Arundel (1789), a novel, Calvary, or, The Death of Christ (1792), a religious epic in blank verse and The West Indian (1771), directed by Garrick at Drury Lane; portrayed as Sir Fretful Plagiary in Sheridan’s The Critic (1779); supposed friend of S.J.: 541, 768, 799, 940, 979 andn. a, 980
Cumberland, William Augustus, Duke of (1721–65), son of George II, army officer; knight of the Garter (1730); promoted Major-General (1742); led campaign against the Jacobite rebels at the battle of Culloden (1746); close associate of Fox; chief mourner at George II’s funeral (1760); ultimately vilified as ‘the Butcher’: 462 and n. a
Cumberland and Strathearn, Anne, Duchess of (1743–1808), wife of the above: 379