The Life of Samuel Johnson - James Boswell [769]
Hunter, Elizabeth, daughter of the following, see Seward, Mrs Elizabeth
Hunter, Mrs Margaret, Christopher Smart’s sister: 865 n. a
Hunter, Revd John (c. 1674–1741), headmaster of Lichfield Grammar School and S.J.’s schoolmaster: 29, 338
Hurd, DrRichard (1720–1808), Bishop of Worcester (1781–1808);edited Horace (1749, 1751); author of Moral and Political Dialogues (1759), The Uses of Foreign Travel (1764) and Letters on Chivalry and Romance (1762); preacher at Lincoln’s Inn (1765); archdeacon of Gloucester and rector of Dursley (1767); first Warburtonian Lecturer at Cambridge University (1768); Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield (1774); Supporter of North; declined George III’s offerofArchbish-opric of Canterbury (1783):50and n. a,533, 558n. a, 646, 868, 924, 993 n. a
Husbands, Revd John (1706–32), fellow of Pembroke College: 40
Hussey, Dr Thomas (1741–1803), Roman Catholic bishop of Waterford and Lismore(1796);Ordinary chaplain to the Spanish ambassadorin Lond on(1769); helped to establish the Catholic seminary at Maynooth, becoming its first president (1795): 995
Hussey, Revd John (1751–99), chaplain to the English Factory at Aleppo: 723
Hutcheson, Francis (1694–1746), moral philosopher; author of An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue (1725) and A System of Moral Philosophy(pub. 1755); Professor of moral philosophyat the Universityof Glasgow (1729); Seen as contemporary rival and Antithesis to Hume; major influence on the teachingofmoral Philosophy in Scottish and American universities during the eighteenth century: 545
Hutchinson, John (1674–1737), naturalist and theologian; author of Moses principia (1724–7); High Churchman who undermined Arian and Socinian theologians, including the leading Newtonian authors; gained a wide following, Particularly in Oxford and Edinburgh; confused by J.B. with Francis Hutcheson: 545
Hutton, James (1715–95), the Moravian: 995
Hutton, William (1723–1815), historian; Dissenter and member of Joseph Priestley’s circle; author of A History of Birmingham (pub. 1752) and A History of Derby; overseer of the poor (1768); fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (1782); published poet: 611 n. b
Hyde, Henry Hyde, Lord, of Hindon, see Cornbury, Henry Hyde, Viscount
Ince, Richard (c. 1684–1758), a contributor to The Spectator: 536
Innes, Revd Alexander (c. 1675–1742?), impostor: 192 and n. b
Innys, William (d. 1756), London bookseller: 989 n.a
Irwin, Captain (fl. 1775): 470
Jackson, Harry (d. 1777), S.J.’s schoolfellow: 512, 593, 594
Jackson, Revd William (c. 1701–84), perpetual curate of Barton, North Riding, Yorkshire: 131 n. b
Jackson, Richard (Omniscient Jackson) (d.1787), politician; agent for Connecticut (1760–70), Pennsylvania (1763–70) and Massachusetts (1765–70); secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Grenville administration; close friend of Benjamin Franklin since the early 1750s; intimate friend of Shelburne in later years; lord of the Treasury (1782–3); complimentary on Johnson’s Journey to the Western Islands: 528 and n. a,596
Jackson, Thomas (fl. 1712): 26
James I (1394–1437), king of Scotland: 264
James IV (1473–1513), kingof Scotland: 483
James V (1512–42), king of Scotland: 410
James I (1566–1625), king of England: 353, 729
James II (1633–1701), king of England: 228, 444
‘James, King’, the Old Pretender (1688–1766): 227, 228 n. b
James, Dr Robert (1705–76), physician and inventor of James’s fever powder; fellow pupil of S.J. at Lichfield Grammar and lifelong friend; full licentiate of the College of Physicians (1745); author of A Medicinal Dictionary, with a History of Drugs (1743) and A Treatise on the Gout and Rheumatism (1745); death of Goldsmith, after using James’s powders, discredited him greatly: 11, 48,91 n. a, 92 andn. a, 521, 530 andn. c, 960
Janus Vitalis, see Vitalis, Janus
Japix, Gijsbert (1603-66),