The Life of Samuel Johnson - James Boswell [755]
Duncombe, William (1690–1769), writer; author of Junius Brutus (1734); contributed to Dodsley’s A Collection of Poems by Several Hands (1748): 693 and n.a
Dundas, Henry, 1st Viscount Melville (1742–1811), politician; lord advocate (I775); MP for Edinburgh (1790); supporter of North then Rockingham; forged partnership with Pitt; Home Secretary (1791); central in the union of Ireland with Great Britain (1801); had a significant hand in the India Act (1784); Secretary of State for War (1794); first lord of the Admiralty (1804): 145, 638
Dunning, John, 1 st Baron Ashburton (1731–83), barrister and politician; recorder of Bristol (1766–83); Solicitor-General (1768); deeply committed to religious liberty; follower and friend of Shelbourne; closely involved in East Indian affairs; created Baron Ashburton (1782): 252, 345, 591, 654, 795
Dunton, John (1659–1733), bookseller and Whig propagandist: 873
Dupin, Louis Ellies (1657–1719), French theologian: 936
Duppa, Dr Brian (1588–1662), bishop of Winchester (1660); occupied a median position between Laudians and anti-Laudians; dean of Christ Church (1628); vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford (1632-3); bishop of Chichester (1638); bishop of Salisbury (1641); author of Holy Rules and Helps to Devotion (1673), a work that gained Increasing popularity in the eighteenth century; editor of Jonsonus virbius (1638), a collection of poems on the death of Ben Jonson: 991 n. a
Dury, Major-General Alexander (d. 1758): 181 and n.a
Dyer, Samuel (1725–72), translator; original member of the Ivy Lane Club (1749); first elected member of the Literary Club (1764); intimate friend of Edmund Burke; fellow (1760), and later on the council, of the Royal Society (1766): 252, 269, 768
Eccles, Mr: 224
Eccles, RevdJohn (d. 1777): 192
Edwards, Oliver (1711–91), lawyer and college friend of S.J.: 686, 687, 688, 689, 690, 813
Edwards, Revd Jonathan (1703–58), president of the College of New Jersey, Calvinist theologian and philosopher; tutor at Yale College (1724-6); author of A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God (1737), Freedom of the Will (1754) and Some Thoughts concerning the Present Revival of Religion in New England (1742); prominent role in New England’s pietistic revival, the ‘great awakening’ (1740–42); the outstanding American theologian of the eighteenth century: 722
Edwin, John (1749–90), comedian: 976 n. a
Elibank, Patrick Murray, 5th Baron (1703–78), literary patron; Tory; member of the Select Society; intimately associated with the Edinburgh literati; described by J.B. as ‘a man of great genius, great knowledge, and much whim’ (London Journal); admired by S.J. for his wisdom; proprietor of the East India Company: 334, 338, 360, 362, 408, 531, 547, 768, 827
Eliot, Edward Eliot, 1st Baron (1727–1804), politician; one of the leading borough proprietors of the age; connected to Frederick, Prince of Wales; receiver-general of the Duchy of Cornwall; supported Newcastle until his ambitions were disappointed; strained but close relationship with Gibbon; member of the Literary Club; early patron of Sir Joshua Reynolds; friend of Pitt; hovered on the fringe of the Rockingham administration: 252, 545, 866 n. a, 943, 946, 947
Elliock, James Veitch, Lord (1712–93), judge; popular member of Edinburgh legal and literary circles; sheriff-deputy of the county of Peebles (1747); connections with the 3rd Duke of Queensberry; deputy-governor of the Royal Bank of Scotland (1776): 638
Elliot, Sir Gilbert (1722–77), politician and literary patron; Roxburghshire’s first sheriff-depute (1748); MP for Selkirkshire (1753–65); lord of the Admiralty (1756-7); supporter of Pitt; founder member of Edinburgh’s Poker Club (1762); treasurer of the Chamber (1762–70); supporter of Bute; treasurer of the navy (1770); oratory skills admired by J.B.; friend of Hume; amateur poet: 345
Ellis, John (1698–1790), scrivener and miscellaneous writer: 529
Ellis, Revd William (fl. 1770), headmaster of Bishop’s Stortford School: 320
Ellis, Welbore, 1st Baron Mendip (1713–1802), politician;