The Life of Samuel Johnson - James Boswell [763]
Hales, Dr John (1584–1656), scholar and fellow of Eton: 938
Hales, Dr Stephen (1677–1761), physiologist: 13, 166
Hall, General (fl. 1778), officer commanding the Militia at Warley Camp: 719 and n. b
Hall, John (1739–97), history and portrait engraver; fellow of the Society of Artists (1765); engraved Benjamin West’s history paintings; history engraver to the King (1785): 1000 n.c
Hall, Mrs (Martha) (c. 1707–91), sister of John Wesley and wife of the polygamist Revd Westley Hall (1711–76): 814–16
Hamilton, Archibald (c. 1719–93), printer and publisher; set up business in Chancery Lane in 1756, and by 1760 had at least eight printing presses; friend of Smollett; printer of the Critical Review and, by 1758, its publisher; acquaintance of Goldsmith, S.J. and Garrick; later entered into partnership with William Jackson at the Oxford University Press: 380
Hamilton, Douglas Hamilton, 8th Duke of (1756–99): 642
Hamilton, Gavin (1730–97), painter: 405
Hamilton, Sir William (1730–1803), diplomatist and art collector; MP for Mid-hurst, Sussex (1761); supporter of Bute; fellow of the Royal Society (1766); knight of the Bath (1772); fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (1772); member of the Society of Dilettanti (1777); compulsive art collector who amassed c. 350 paintings including works by Reynolds, Velazquez, Titian and Holbein; expert on volcanoes and author of Campi phlegraei: Observations on the Volcanoes of the Two Sicilies (ijj6): 252
Hamilton, William, of Bangour (1704–54), poet and Jacobite army officer; member of the Rankinian Club; friends with Hume and Prince Charles; said to have hidden in a tree at Falkirk during the Jacobite rising of 1745; author of the ballad ‘The Braes of Yarrow’, admired by Wordsworth: 604
Hamilton, William Gerard (1729–96), politician; member of the Board of Trade (1756–61); chief secretary to Lord Halifax, Irish viceroy (1761); was widely believed to be the author of the ‘Junius’ letters; inconstant in his political alliances; close friend of S.J.: 257, 333, 897, 953, 9^5, 990, 1000 n. b
Hammond, Dr Henry (1605–60), theologian and chaplain to Charles I: 547
Hammond, James (1710–42), politician and poet; equerry to the Prince of Wales (1733–42); enjoyed the patronage of Lord Chesterfield; Whig MP for Truro (1741); author of a prologue to George Lillo’s Elmerick (1740) and the collection of Love Elegies (pub. 1742), imitations of Tibullus, criticized by S.J. as ‘frigid pedantry’ (Lives of the English Poets): 55 n. a, 534 n. a, 771, 799 n. a
Hammond, Richard (d. 1738), apothecary of Lichfield: 26
Hampton, Revd James (1721–78), translator and Church of England clergyman; rector of Moor Monkton, Yorkshire (1762); translated Polybius (1741, 1756–61); author of A Plain and Easy Account ofthe Fall of Man (1750) and An Essay on Ancient and Modern History (1746): 13, 166
Handel, George Frederick (1685–1759), musical composer; composer of The Messiah: 919
Hanmer, SirThomas (1677–1746), politician; Hanoverian Tory; one of the leading speakers for the Tories in the Lower House; secretly made Chancellor of the Exchequer by Harley (1708); member of the October Club; Speaker in the Commons; produced several literary efforts, including A Review of the Text of… ‘Paradise Lost’ (1733) and an edition of Shakespeare (1743-4): 12, 100,101, 276, 280 n. b
Hannibal (247–182 bc), great Carthaginian general who came close to defeating Rome in the Second Punic War; finally defeated by Scipio at the battle of Zama: 539
Hanway, Jonas (1712–86), merchant and philanthropist; employee of the Russia Company (1743–64); author of An Historical Account of the British Trade over the Caspian Sea (4 vols., 1753) and Virtue in Humble Life (2 vols., 1774); literary skirmishes with Goldsmith and S.J. over opposition to tea; governor of the Foundling Hospital (1756); established the Marine Society; Bute his patron: 14, 167, 169, 324
Harding, J. (fl.