The Life of Samuel Johnson - James Boswell [768]
Horne, Dr George (1730–92), bishop of Norwich; president of Magdalen College, Oxford (1768); vice-chancellor of Oxford University (1776–80); monarchist; defender of religious orthodoxy; author of Commentary on the Book of Psalms (1776) and Letters on Infidelity (1784): 411, 413, 502, 577, 1004 n. a
Horne, Revd John, see Tooke, John Horne
Horneck, the Misses Catherine (d. 1798) and Mary (c. 1750–1840), Goldsmith’s friends, ‘Little Comedy’ and ‘The Jessamy Bride’: 219 n. c
Horrebow, Niels (1712–60), Danish traveller and lawyer: 674
Horsley, Dr Samuel (1733–1806), bishop of St Asaph (1802); fellow of the Royal Society (1767), later secretary; member of the Essex Head Club (1783) and part of S.J.’s circle; bishop of St David’s (1788); dean of Winchester and bishop of Rochester (1793); author of A Review of the Case of the Protestant Dissenters (1790); active opponent of slave trade: 903
Horton, Mrs Anne, see Cumberland and Strathearn, Anne, Duchess of
Howard, Charles (1707–71), son of the preceding and a Lichfield lawyer: 48, 644
Howard, Charles (1742–91), son of the preceding and a Lichfield lawyer: 644
Howard, Hon. Edward (fl. 1669), dramatist: 316 n. a
Howard, Sir George (1720?–96), army officer and politician; Colonel of the Buffs (1749); promoted Major-General (1758); promoted Lieutenant General (1760); Governor of Minorca (1766–8);MP for Stamford (1768–96); governorofChel-sea Hospital (1768–95); promoted General (1777); promoted Field Marshal (1793); Privy Councillor (1795); governor of Jersey (1795–6): 462 n. a
Huddesford, DrGeorge (c. 1699–1776), President of Trinity College, Oxford; vice-chancellor: 152 and n. d,153, 173
Huet, Pierre Daniel (1630–1721), bishopof Avranches: 53 n. b, 615
Huggins, William (1696–1761), translator; close friend of Hogarth; translated Orlando Furioso (1755); engaged with Warton after the latter’s disparagement of Ariosto; sometime writer of librettos for oratorios: 203, 766
Hughes, John (1677–1720), writer and librettist; dissenting Whig; secretary to the Commissions of the Peace of the Court of Chancery(1717);Author of panegyrics The Triumph of Peace (1698) and The Court of Nassau (1702) and the tragedy, The Siege of Damascus(1720);translatedLetters of Abelard and Heloise(1713), the basis for Pope’s Eloisa to Abelard (1717); produced the first critical edition of Edmund Spenser’s works (6 vols., 1715); part of the Steele–Addison circle; major libretto was Calypso and Telemachus (1712): 146, 693 n. a, 782 n.a
Hume, David (1711–76), philosopher and historian; author of A Treatise of Human Nature (1739), Essays, Moral and Political (1741), An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748, 1756) and The History of Great Britain (1754–61); founder member of the Select Society (1754); joint secretary of the Philosophical Society(1751); disliked and avoided S.J.; helped secure Rousseau’s refuge in England (1765); arguably the most acute thinker in eighteenth-century Britain: 103n.a,112, 232, 234, 244, 265, 290, 299andn.a,314, 315, 385, 432, 501, 585, 605, 625, 653 n. a, 679, 718, 870, 923, 1001 n. a
Hume, Mrs Margaret, see Home, Mrs Margaret
Humphry, Ozias (1742–1810), miniature and portrait painter; member of the Society of Artists (1773); associateofthe Royal Academy (1779); painted Queen Charlotte (1766) and Charlotte, princess royal (1769) by royal commission; large clientele and considerable success in early years but faltered after transition from miniatures to oil painting: 912 and n. a, 1000 n. c
Hunter, Dr William (1718–83), physician, anatomist and man-midwife; elder brother of John Hunter; member of the Company of Surgeons (1747–56); man-midwifeatthe new British Lying-inHospital (1749–59); great friend of Smollett; licentiate of the Royal College