The Life of Samuel Johnson - James Boswell [770]
Jenkinson, Charles, 1st Baron Hawkesbury and 1st Earl of Liverpool (1729?-1808), politician; father of Robert Banks Jenkinson, future prime minister; under-secretary to Lord Bute (1761); secretary to the Treasury (1763 –5); lord of the Admiralty (1766-7); board of the Treasury (1767); Privy Councillor (1773); Secretary at War (1778–81); honorary member of the Board of Trade (1784), then its first president (1786–1804); chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (1786–1803); Earl of Liverpool (1796): 601
Jennings, Henry Constantine (1731–1819), virtuoso: 648
Jennings-Clerke, Sir Philip (c.i722–88), MP: 809
Jenyns, Soame (1704–87), author and politician; author of A Free Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil (1757), ridiculed by S.J., and A View of the Internal Evidence of the Christian Religion (1776); critical ‘Epitaph on Johnson’ surreptitiously given to the Gentleman’s Magazine (1783); Whig MP for Cambridgeshire (1741, 1747–53): 169–70 andn. a, 543, 674, 679, 680
Jephson, Robert (1736–1803), playwright; friend of Garrick; performed the title role of Macbeth at the Phoenix Park Theatre (1777); author of the plays Braganza (Drury Lane, 1775), The Law of Lombardy (Drury Lane, 1779) and The Count of Narbonne (Covent Garden, 1781), an adaptation of Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto: 142 n. b
Jersey, William Villiers, 3rd Earl of (d. 1769), and Anne, his countess (d. 1762): 22, 1020 n. 18
John (1167–1216), king of England: 135
Johnson (fl. 1763), the horse-rider: 212, 648
Johnson, Benjamin Fisher (1740–1809), S.J.’s second cousin: 989 n. a
Johnson, Elizabeth (1689–1752), S.J.’s wife: 12, 56–8, 108, 117, 130, 131, 132, 256, 261, 301, 542, 713, 984,989 n. a
Johnson, Michael (1656–1731), S.J.’s father: 24, 27,29, 32, 38, 39,43 n. a, 47, 48, 53, 237, 285, 301, 435, 971 andn. a, 989 n. a
Johnson, Nathaniel (1712–37), S.J.’s younger brother: 24, 38, 53
Johnson, Revd ‘Samuel’, really John (d. 1747), keeper of Archbishop Tenison’s library: 79
Johnson, Sarah (1669–1759), S.J.’s mother: 24, 26, 27, 28,30, 42,48, 65, 93,118, 131, 157, 181, 182, 267, 285, 325, 815
Johnson, Thomas (1703–79), S.J.’s cousin, son of Andrew Johnson: 989 n. a
Johnson, Thomas (i738-?i82o), S.J.’s second cousin, grandson of Andrew Johnson: 989 n. a
Johnston, Arthur (1587–1641), poet; professor of logic and metaphysics (1604) then physic (1610) at the college at Sedan, France; burgess of Aberdeen (1622); rector of King’s College, Aberdeen (1637); author of Parerga and Epigrammata (1632), editor of Delitiae poetarum Scotorum (1637); decreed by S.J. to hold ‘among the Latin poets of Scotland the next place to the elegant Buchanan’ (A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland): 242, 575, 909
Johnston, William (fl. 1748–74), London bookseller: 182
Johnstone, Sir James (1726–94), MP: 919
Jones, Mary (fl. 1740–61), poetess: 173 and n. d
Jones, Revd Oliver (misread River by J.B.) (c. 1706–75), chanter of Christ Church Cathedral and brother of Mary Jones: 173 n. d
Jones, RevdPhilip (c.i709–64): 502
Jones, Sir William (1746–94), orientalist and judge; radical Whig; fellow of University College, Oxford (1766); author of a Grammar of the Persian Language (1771), Poems, Consisting Chiefly of Translations from the Asiatick Languages (1772); fellow of the Royal Society (1772); commissioner of bankrupts (1775); bench of Supreme Court in Calcutta (1783); founder of the Asiatick Society of Bengal (1784); conjectures marked the beginning of Indo-European comparative grammar and modern comparative-historical linguistics; translated Kalidasa’s Sacontala (1789); member of S.J.’s Literary Club: 124, 252, 326 n. a, 387, 596, 731, 802 n. a
Jonson, Ben (1573?–1637), poet and playwright; architect of Stuart court masques; pioneer of the ‘comedy of humours’; author of Every Man inHis Humour (1598), Volpone (1606?) and The Alchemist (1610); publication of 1616 folio secured his position as England’s then greatest living poet; held as Shakespeare’s equal, or even superior, for most of the seventeenth century: 536, 904
Jopp, James (1721–94), provost of