The Life of Samuel Johnson - James Boswell [761]
Graham, Mary Helen (1763–96): 743
Graham, Revd George (1728–67), playwright; fellow of King’s College, Cambridge (1749–67); friendly with S.J.; author of a masque, Telemachus (1763), and a collection of edifying stories with ‘poetic essays’, The Virtuous Novelist (1750): 15, 218, 575, 823, 824
Grainger, James (1721?-66), physician and poet; ran a practice in Bond Court (from 1753); contributor to the Monthly Review; acquaintance of S.J., Smollett and Goldsmith; licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians (1758); translated Tibullus and Sulpicia; later feuded with Smollett; author of poems The Sugar-Cane (1764) and ‘Ode to Solitude’, the latter earning praise from S.J.: 15, 253, 506 and n. a, 507 n. a, 629
Granger, Revd James (1723–76), print collector and biographer; author of the Biographical History of England (1769), which catalogued portrait heads and added biographical memoirs; S.J. complained of political bias in his work (Whiggism); OED (1882) records the verb ‘to grangerize’ after his manner of print collecting: 568
Grant, Sir Archibald, of Monymusk (1696–1778), politician and agricultural improver; expelled from the Commons for speculative activities (1732); from 1734, largely devoted to improving his estate in Monymusk; published The Practical Farmer’s Pocket Companion (1766): 574
Granville, JohnCarteret, 1st Earl (1690–1763), statesman: 769, 807
Grattan, Henry (1746–1820), Irish nationalist politician; MP for Charlemont (1775); helped secure free trade from the British government for Ireland (1779–80); splendid oratory won greater legislative authority for Irish Parliament (1782); sworn of the Irish Privy Council (1783); feuded with Henry Flood; tried in vain to prevent the Act of Union (1800); dedicated his last twenty years to Catholic emancipation; absolutely first-rate orator but reputation larger than his achievements: 939
Graves, Morgan (c. 1709–70), elder brother of the following: 55 n. a
Graves, Revd Richard (1715–1804), writer and translator; close friend of Shen-stone; fellow of All Souls, Oxford (1736); rector at Claverton, near Bath (1749); vicar of Kilmarsden (1763–94); wrote an elegy on the death of S.J. (1785); won real fame with The Spiritual Quixote (3 vols., 1773), a novel strongly influenced by Fielding; translated Marcus Aurelius (1792) and Xenophon (1793); hugely versatile; religious enthusiast: 505
Gravina, Gian Vincenzo (1664–1718), Italian critic and poet: 873
Gray, Dr Edward Whitaker (1748–1806), botanist: 477 n. a
Gray, John (fl. 1732–41), London bookseller: 93
Gray, Sir James (d. 1773), diplomatist and antiquary; founder member of the Society of the Dilettanti (1738); secretary to Robert D’Arcy on his mission to Venice (1744); envoy-extraordinary to the court of Naples (1753); knight of the Bath (1759); ambassador to Madrid (1767-9); sworn of the Privy Council (1769): 354
Gray, Thomas (1716–71), poet and literary scholar; author of Odes (1757) and the ‘Elegy’ (1751), the most admired and imitated poem of the century; refused Poet Laureateship (1757); professor of modern history at Cambridge University (1768–71); hostile treatment by S.J. in his Life of Gray (1781): 21, 213, 214, 263 n. a, 347, 432,437, 438,442, 535, 538, 608, 633 n. a, 682, 754, 769, 799, 850, 984
Greaves, Samuel (fl. 1783–4), servant of Mr Thrale: 902
Green, Dr John (i7o6?–79), bishop of Lincoln (1761, earlier dean, 1756); regius professor of divinity at Cambridge University (1748–61); royal chaplain (1753-6); Hanoverian; client of the Duke of Newcastle; vice-chancellor of Cambridge (1756-7); anti-Methodist: 29
Green, or Greene, Richard (1716–93), antiquary and museum proprietor; relative of S.J.’s; sheriff (1758), Alderman and bailiff (1785, 1790) of Lichfield; treated S.J. as an apothecary; museum visited by J.B. and S.J.; S.J.’s intermediary to Lucy Porter: 513, 984
Gregory, Dr James (1753–1821), physician; effectively chief of the medical faculty at Edinburgh University (1776); joint professor of the practice of physic (1790); friends with Burns; first physician to the king of Scotland