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authored the plays Cleone (1758) and The Toy Shop (1735); brought out the first poems of Akenside, Gray and Shenstone; set up the periodical The Museum (1746); owned shares in the London Magazine and the London Evening-Post; published S.J.’s Vanity of Human Wishes (1749), Irene (1749) and, in collaboration with five other booksellers, Dictionary (1755); compiled and produced Select Collection of Old Plays (12 vols., 1744–5) and A Collection of Poems by Several Hands (6 vols., 1748–58): 12, 72,73, 104,105, 108,113 n. a, 133, 144,149 n. a, 150, 156,158, 171, 175 n. b, 182, 514, 529, 538, 603 n. a, 629, 668, 675, 742, 773, 775, 503, 505 n. b

Dominicetti, Bartholomewde (fl. 1753–65): 310, 311

Donaldson, Alexander (fl. 1750–94), bookseller and printer; used Pope’s head as the sign of his bookshop; young Scots with literary ambition used his shop as a meeting place, including J.B. and Andrew Erskine; second volume of his Collection of Original Poems (1760–62) gave J.B. an outlet for his Juvenilia; assaulted copyright laws in London, to S.J.’s chagrin, by winning case of Donaldson v. Becket (1774); founder of the Edinburgh Advertiser (1764): 231

Dorset, John Frederick Sackville-Germaine, 3rd Duke of (1745–99), cricketer and courtier; supporter of the Rockingham and Shelbourne ministries; Lord Lieutenant of Kent (1769–97); colonel of West Kent militia (1778–99); sworn of the Privy Council, captain of the Yeoman of the Guard, Master of the Horse (1782); changed allegiance to support Pitt (1783); ambassador to France (1783-9); knight of the Garter (1788); founder member of the Marylebone Cricket Club (1787): 1000 n.c

Dossie, Robert (fl. 1758–82), miscellaneous writer: 768

Doughty, William (d. 1782), portrait painter and mezzotint engraver: 415 n. a, 1000 n. c

Douglas, Dr John (1721–1807), bishop of Salisbury (1791); exposed the forgeries of William Lauder in Milton No Plagiary (1750–51); trounced Hutchesonian sect in Apology for the Clergy (1755); assisted S.J. in the detection of the Cock Lane Ghost imposture (1762); canon at St Paul’s (1776); bishop of Carlisle (1787); dean of Windsor (1788); provided information for J.B.’s Life, who proposed him for membership of the Club (1790), to which elected in 1792: 12, 74, 82, 127, 127 n. a, 141, n. a, 192, 216, 228, 252, 294, 295 and n. a, 382 and n. a, 434, 480, 619, 642, 695, 916, 917

Douglas, Sir John, J.B. ‘s cousin: 611

Drake, Sir Francis ($$), circumnavigator: 10, 85, 86, 339

Draper, Somerset (d. 1756), bookseller, J. and R. Tonson’s partner: 542

Drelincourt, Charles (1595–1669), French Protestant divine: 347 n. a

Drogheda, Edward Moore, 5th Earl of (1701–58): 343

Drumgould, or Drumgold, Colonel Jean (1720–81): 475, 476, 478

Drummond, Dr Robert Hay: 566, 730

Drummond, William, of Hawthornden (1585–1649), poet and pamphleteer; acquaintance of Ben Jonson; author of A History of Scotland (pub. 1655); Milton borrowed from his apparently Mannerist poems: 276, 277, 278, 279, 285, 566n.a

Dryden, John (1631–1700), poet, playwright and critic; Tory and loyal supporter of the Stuarts; established himself in the theatre with the comedy Marriage a-la-mode (staged November 1671, printed 1673), the heroic dramas The Conquest of Granada (staged December 1670-January 1671, printed 1672) and Aureng-Zebe (staged ^November 1675, printed 1676) and the blank verse adaptation of Antony and Cleopatra, All for Love (staged December 1677, printed 1678); Poet Laureate (1668); made an historically significant early foray into criticism with Of Dramatick Poesie (1668); convert to Roman Catholicism (1685-8); turned to adaptation and translation when silenced by the Protestant Glorious Revolution; a hugely varied and wide-ranging writer and the greatest poet of his era: 125, 163, 239, 263, 304, 325, 350, 379, 388, 436,475, 538, 556, 557, 560, 660, 675, 688 n. a, 711, 738 and n. a, 783, 786, 787, 826, 899, 931

Du Bos, Jean Baptiste (1670–1742), critic: 306

DuHalde, Jean Baptiste (1674–1743), Jesuit writer: 11, 79 n. b, 91, 291

Dunbar, Dr James (d. 1798), professor of philosophy, King’s College,