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Hogarth, William (1697–1764), painter and engraver; illustrated Samuel Butler’s Hudibras (1726); celebrity madebypictorial narrativesThe Rake’s Progressand The Harlot’s Progress; portrait painter after the English grand manner, including the Graham children (1742) and David Garrick as Richard III (1745); further tackled comic history painting, biblical subjects, the lower classes and, in The Election (1753–8), modern politics and corruption; author of The Analysis of Beauty (1753); often described as the father of British painting: 31 n. a, 85, 136, 712
Holbrook, Revd Edward (1695–1772), usher at Lichfield Grammar School and vicar of St Mary’s, Lichfield: 29
Holder, Mr (?Robert, d. 1797), apothecary: 840, 845 and n. a, 989 n. a
Holinshed, Raphael (d. 1580?), historian and chronicler: 912 n. a, 989 n. a
Hollis, Thomas (1720–74), ‘the strenuous Whig’, political propagandist; fellow of the Royal Society (1757); rational Dissenter; great benefactor to American colleges, particularly Harvard; reprinted and distributed literature from the seventeenth-century republican canon, including Milton and Locke: 32, 817
Home, DrFrancis (1719–1813), physician; fellow (1751) then president (1775–7) of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh; author of An Inquiry into the Nature, Causeand Cure of the Croup(1765), Experiments on Bleaching(1756); professor of materia medica at Edinburgh University (1768); in many ways the quintessential establishment Scottish Enlightenment physician: 13, 166
Home, Henry, see Kames, Henry Home, Lord
Home, John (1722–1808), Church of Scotland minister and playwright; minister of Athelstaneford (1746); author of the tragedy Douglas(1756), akey text in the Scottish literature of sensibility; private secretary to Bute (1757–63); member of the Poker Club; History of the Rebellion, 1745 published posthumously (1802): 240, 434, 542 n. a, 560, 562, 610 n. a
Home, or Hume, Mrs Margaret, James Thomson’s maternal grandmother: 718
Homer (fl. probably 9th century B c); great Greek epic poet and author of The Iliad and The Odyssey: 34, 44, 59, 210, 328, 401, 422, 506 n. a, 558 n. a, 559, 627 andn. b, 628, 663, 702, 703, 771, 780, 933
Homfrey, see Humphry, Ozias
Hooke, Dr Luke Joseph (1716-^6), Roman Catholic theologian; professor of theology at Paris University (1742–51), then Hebrew and Chaldean (1767); author of Religionis naturalis et revelatae principia (2 vols., 1752); host of S.J. in Paris (1775); chief librarian at the Mazarine Library (1778): 475
Hooker, Richard (1554?–!600), theologian and philosopher; cited more frequently in the first edition of the Dictionary than any other author save Locke; author of Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity (1593?); much-celebrated advocate for Anglicanism: 122
Hoole, John (1727–1803), translator; auditor to the East India Company; translated Tasso (1763, 1792), Arioso (1783) and Metastasio (1767); friend of S.J.; member of the Essex Head Club; attended S.J. on his deathbed; author of three, largely unsuccessful, tragedies performed at Covent Garden and the Present State of the English East India Company’s Affairs (1772): 15, 204, 416–17, 441, 538, 709, 802, 811, 812, 867, 901,905, 910,912, 919,962, 989 n. a, 992, 996
Hoole, Revd Samuel (c. 1758–1839), son of the preceding, poet; preacher at St Alban, Wood Street; attended S.J. in his final illness; rector of Poplar Chapel, Middlesex (1803); author of Edward, or, The Curate (1787) and Aurelia, or, The Contest (1783): 989 n. a, 994
Hope, Dr John (1725–86), professor of botany and materia medica, Edinburgh: 908
Hopetoun, John Hope, 2nd Earl of (1704–81): 786 n. b
Horace, Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-8 bc), much-imitated Augustan poet and satirist, whose Ars Poetica exerted a powerful influence over the critical thinking of European theorists of poetry in the seventeenth century; General: 33, 34,