The Life of Samuel Johnson - James Boswell [762]
Grenville, George (1712–70), prime minister; ‘Cobham Cub’; treasurer of the navy (1754-5, 1757, 1758); Privy Councillor (1754); Secretary of State for the North (1762-3); first lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer (1763-5); sanctioned the taxes and stamp duties on America that started the American War of Independence: 331
Grey, Dr Richard (1694–1771), author: 695
Grey, Dr Zachary (1688–1766), Church of England clergyman and writer; known through many controversies with the Dissenters; author of A Vindication of the Church of England (1720) and The Spirit of Infidelity Detected (1723); published Critical, Historical, and Explanatory Notes on Shakespeare (2 vols., 1754): 695
Grey, or Gray, Stephen (d. 1736), electrician: 276
Grierson, George Abraham (c.i 728–55), Dublin printer: 321
Grierson, Mrs Constantia (i7o6?~33), classical scholar: 321 n. a
Grimston, William Grimston, 1st Viscount (1683–1756), Whig politician; MP for St Albans (1710–22); created a peer of Ireland (1719); feud with the Duchess of Marlborough; author of a play, The Lawyer’s Fortune, or, Love in a Hollow Tree (1705), ridiculed by Swift and Pope: 808 n. a
Grotius, Hugo (1583–1645), Dutch statesman and jurist: 239, 495, 588, 589
Grove, Henry (1684–1738), Presbyterian minister and tutor in ethics and pneuma-tology at the Taunton Academy (1706), later head (1725); four essays in the Spectator strongly praised by S.J. (1714); A Discourse Concerning the Nature and Design of the Lord’s Supper (1732) ran to eight editions; published poet: 536, 780
Guarini, Giovanni Battista (1538–1612), Italian court poet; instigator of the form of pastoral drama; author of the influential Il Pastor Fido: 711
Guimene, mis-spelling of Guemene
Guthrie, William (1708–70), historian and political journalist; reporter of parliamentary business for the Gentleman’s Magazine; translated Quintilian (1756) and Cicero; regarded with affection by J.B. and S.J.; author of a General History of the World(iz vols., 1764–7), a General History of Scotland (10 vols., 1767) and a Geographical, Historical, and Commercial Grammar (1770): 69, 82, 290, 779
Guyon, Abbe Claude Marie (1699–1771), French historian: 11, 86
Gwyn, General Francis Edward (d. 1821): 15, 187, 193, 498, 499
Hackman, Revd James (1752–79), murderer; murdered Martha Ray (possible lover) after a performance of Love in a Village at Covent Garden (1779); failed suicide attempt immediately after; J.B. attended his hanging (1779); motives disputed by S.J. and Topham Beauclerk: 730–31
Haddington, Charles Hamilton, 8th Earl of, see Binning, Charles Hamilton, Lord
Haddington, Thomas Hamilton, 7th Earl of (c. 1720–95): 594
Hague (fl. c.i720), usher at Lichfield School: 29
Hailes, Sir David Dalrymple, Lord (1726–92), judge and Whig historian; wide-ranging reader with a fine library; advocate for the poor (1753-5); author of Examination… oftheRegiam majestatem (1769) and Remarks on the History of Scotland (1773); Annals of Scotland (2 vols., 1776 and 1779) heralded by S.J. as ‘a new mode of history’; friends with S.J. and J.B.; widely esteemed as a literary critic; correspondent of Burke and Horace Walpole: 145, 229, 367, 410, 411, 413, 414,415, 418,419, 420,421, 441,463, 464,465, 466 n. a,467, 468,481, 482, 484, 485, 487, 488–91, 502, 547, 568, 574, 577, 586, 591, 593–4, 6o6, 627, 640, 642, 673, 718, 725, 737–8 and n. a, 741, 853, 883, 890, 895, 938
Hakewill, Dr George (1578–1649), Church of England clergyman and author; fierce anti-Catholic Calvinist; royal chaplain (1612); archdeacon of Surrey (1617); author of An Apologie… of the Power andProvidence of God(i6zj); listed by J.B. as a shaping stylistic influence on S.J., possibly an influence on Milton: 122
Hale, Sir Matthew (1609–76), judge and writer; broadly royalist; Justice of the Common Court of Pleas (1654); Chief Baron of the Exchequer (1660); knighted (1661); Chief Justice of the King’s Bench (1671-6); author