The Life of Samuel Johnson - James Boswell [752]
Cumming, Tom (d. 1774), Quaker, merchant; effectively led military and naval forces against the French in Legibelli (South Barbary); took entire blame for the ensuing bloodshed though apparently not disowned by the Society of Friends: 880
Cuninghame, Lieutenant David, later Sir David Montgomerie-Cuninghame (d. 1814): 879
Cust, Francis Cockayne: 93 n. a, 98 and n. a, n. c
Cuthbert, St (643–87); bishop of the great Benedictine abbey of Lindisfarne; one of the most venerated English saints, who evangelized Northumbria: 502
Cutts, Lady (c.i 679–97): 647
Dacier, Andre (1651–1722), classical scholar: translation of Horace, 558–9
Dacier, Mme (1654–1720), classical scholar: 703
Dalin, Olaf von (1708–63), Swedish historian: 343
Dalrymple, Sir David, see Hailes, Sir David Dalrymple, Lord
Dalrymple, Sir John (1726–1810), laywer and historian; protege of the Duke of Argyle; member of the Edinburgh literati; author of Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland (ijji); interesting butminor literary figure: 372, 386, 418
Dalzel, Prof. Andrew (1742–1806), classical scholar and private tutor in the Lauderdale family; professor of Greek at Edinburgh University (1779); helped to found the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1783); author of an incomplete history of Edinburgh University, commenced in 1799: 979
Dance, James see Love, James
Dante Alighieri (1265–1321), Florentine poet, statesman, and political thinker, author of the Vita Nuova and the Divina Commedia; the creator of Italian as a literary language: 387, 648 n. a
Dashwood, SirHenry Watkin (1745-1828): 743 n. a
Davies, Mrs (Susanna Yarrow) (c.i 723–1801), wife of the below; actress at Drury Lane; earned a combined annual income of around £500 with her husband from the stage: 208, 254, 889, 967
Davies, Thomas, or ‘Tom’ (i7i2?-85), bookseller and actor; regular performer at Drury Lane with wife Susanna; proprietor of bookstore at 8 Russell Street, Covent Garden, where he first met S.J. (16 May 1763); provided information for J.B.’s Life of Johnson; produced the Memoirs of the Life of David Garrick (1788): 207, 254, 295–6, 308, 370, 423, 444, 446, 448, 538, 539, 580, 645, 658, 758, 889 n. b, 767, 769, 889 n. a, 890, 967, 968
Dawkins, James (1722–57), antiquary and Jacobite sympathizer; undertook serious archaeological tour of Aegean and coast of Asia Minor (1750); met with Frederick the Great in Berlin to promote Jacobite conspiracy (1753): 833
Dean, Revd Richard (j2, j?-j%), essayist and Church of England clergyman; principally noted for AnEssay on the Future Life of Brute Creatures (1767), attacking determinism and predestination: 290
Defoe, Daniel (1660/61–1731), writer and businessman; investments resulted in bankruptcy and imprisonment in Fleet prison by 1692; one of Harley’s agents and opinion sampler; author of various conduct books including The Compleat English Tradesman (1726), pamplets and prognoses including Essay on Projects (1697) and The Shortest Way with the Dissenters (1702) and, most famously, the novels Robinson Crusoe (1719), Moll Flanders (1722) and Journal of the Plague Year (1722); admired by S.J., who regarded Crusoe as one of the only three books readers wished were longer: 347 n. a, 667
DeGroot, Isaac (c. 1694–1779), descendant of Grotius: 588, 589
Delany, Dr Patrick (1685?–1768), Church of Ireland dean of Down (1744) and writer; chancellor of Christchurch cathedral in Dublin; published refutation of Lord Orrery’s criticism of Swift (1754), an author with whom he was very friendly; attacked contemporary education in The Present State of Learning (1732); noted educationalist: 658, 784
Democritus (fl. 400 bc), Greek philosopher and writer on mathematics, morals and music: 821 n. a.
Demosthenes (383–322 bc), Athenian statesman and orator: 351, 372, 373, 695, 714
Dempster, George (1732–1818), agriculturalist and politician; MP for twenty-eight years; relatively unallied to party; secretary to the Order of the Thistle (1765); director of the East India Company (1769, 1772); encouraged Richard Arkwright to set up mills in New Lanark, Scotland (1783);