The Life of Samuel Johnson - James Boswell [766]
Henault, Charles Jean Francois (1685–1770), president au parlement de Paris: 465, 482, 489
Henderland, Lord, see Murray, Alexander
Henderson, John (1747–85), actor; a tremendous success at the Theatre Royal in Bath (1772-5); made his London debut as Shylock at the Haymarket Theatre (1777); after two seasons at Drury Lane (1777-9), moved to Covent Garden for six seasons; London career delayed and overshadowed by Garrick: 437 n. a, 897 n. a, 922 n. b
Henderson, John (1757–88), student and eccentric; precocious intellect; conversed for hours with S.J. on visit to Pembroke College, Oxford; habits and learning famous enough to be discussed at length in the Gentleman’s Magazine (1786); massive talent but little or no eventual output: 928
Henn, John (d. 1794), master at Appleby Grammar School: 76 n. a
Henry II, king of England: 135
Henry VIII, king of England: 743
Henry the Navigator, prince of Portugal: 900–901
Henry, Dr Robert (1718–90), Church of Scotland minister and historian; moderator of the general assembly of the Church of Scotland (1774); honorary DD from Edinburgh University (1777); fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1783); author of The History of Great Britain (5 vols., 1771–85), a work of expensive printing and publication problems: 704
Hephiestion: 915
Hercules: 26, 400, 654, 678, 717
Herne, Elizabeth (d. 1792), S.J.’s lunatic cousin: 989 n. a
Herodian (c. AD 165-c. 250), Syrian historian who compiled in Greek a history of the Roman emperors after the death of Marcus Aurelius: 976
Herodotus (c. 480-c. 425 bc), the first great historian of antiquity, and the source of much of our knowledge about the early conflicts between Greece and Persia: 833 n.b
Hertford, Frances, Countess of, later Duchess of Somerset (1699–1754): ^^ n. b
Hervey, Hon. and Revd Henry (1701–48), friend of S.J.: 49 n. b, 62 and n. a
Hervey, Hon. Thomas (1699–1775), politician and pamphleteer; MP for Bury St Edmunds (1733–47); S.J. held a likingfor him and encouraged his matrimonial perseverance; superintendent of the royal gardens (1738); equerry to Queen Caroline (1727): 280 and n.b, 281, 444
Hervey, Lady Emily (1735–1814), daughter of Baron Hervey of Ickworth: 759 n. a
Hesiod, early Greek poet ofrusticlife: 38, 743
Hetherington, Revd William (1698–1778), philanthropist: 415
Heydon, John (fl. i66j), writer on astrology and alchemy, and occultist; staunch royalist; author of The Rosie Crucian (1660) and The Harmony of the World (1662); apologist and publicist for Rosicrucian ideas; attacked by Samuel Parker and Robert Boyle; ultimately, flamboyant populist concerned with self-promotion: 989 n. a
Hickes, George (1642–1715), Nonjuror and antiquary; ground-breaking scholar of Anglo-Saxon: 922
Hierocles (fl. 4th century AD), author of Facetice: 11, 86
Hierocles of Alexandria (fl. 5th century ad), neoplatonic philosopher: 976 n. a
Higgins, Dr,? Bryan Higgins (1737?–1820), physician and chemist: 715, 731
Hill, Aaron (1685–1750), dramatist, writer and entrepreneur: 111 n. b
Hinchliffe, Dr John (1731–94), bishop of Peterborough (1769–); tutor to the Duke of Devonshire (1764–6); chaplain-in-ordinary to George III (1768–9); vice-chancellor of Oxford University (1768–9); opposed to university reform; seen as a progenitor of nineteenth-century ‘Liberalism’; dean of Durham (1788); friendof Horace Walpole: 752 n. a
Hinchman, really Hinckesman, Charles (fl. 1784): 989 n. a
Hitch, Charles (d. 1764), London bookseller and partner of L. Hawes: 104
Hoadly, Dr Benjamin (1706–57), physician and dramatist; author of The Suspicious Husband (1747): 288
Hobbes, Thomas (1588–1679), philosopher; author of The Elements of Law (1640), Of Libertie and Necessitie (1654) and, most significantly, Leviathan (1651); fierce anti-clericalism has led many to believe he was an atheist; moral rules following ‘the laws of nature’ often construed as proto social-Darwinism; influence on wide range of philosophers including Rousseau, Kant and Spinoza: 989 n. a
Hog, William (fl. 1690), Latin poet; oneofthe