The Life of Samuel Johnson - James Boswell [771]
Jorden, Revd William (d. 1739), college teacher; fellow and later bursar, chaplain and vice-regent of Pembroke College, Oxford; S.J.’s tutor; S.J.’s first published poem, a Latin version of Pope’s Messiah, written as a Christmas vacation exercise for him; rector of Standon, Staffordshire (1729–33): 39, 47, 147
Jortin, Dr John (1698–1770), ecclesiastical historian and literary critic; preacher at the chapel of ease in Oxdenden Street (1747–60); rector of St Dunstan-in-the-East (1751); archdeacon of London (1764); author of Remarks onEcclesi-astical History (1751) and Life of Erasmus (2 vols., 1758–60); contributed to Donaldson’s Miscellanea Virgiliana (1825); became embroiled in a controversy with Richard Hurd: 657, 854
Joseph, J.B.’s servant, see Ritter, Joseph
Julien, or St Julien (fl. 1775), treasurer of the Clergy: 471
Julius Caesar, Gaius (102–44 BC); Roman statesman and military commander; author of Commentaries on the Gallic War and the Civil War which followed his illegal return to Italy under arms in 49 BC, and from which he emerged triumphant; assassinated by pro-Republican zealots including Marcus Brutus and Caius Cassius; political, legal and constitutional reformer: 24, 615
‘Junius’, pseudonymous author of Letters published 1769–71: 331, 348, 727, 932–3
Junius, Francis (1589–1677), philologist and writer on art; librarian to Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel; author of art theory, De pictura veterum (1637); produced a comprehensive Latin-Old English glossary, a new Chaucer glossary and various glossaries of Old Germanic languages; surviving collection has proved invaluable to Germanic scholars: 106
Justin (fl. 2nd or 3rd century ad); author of a Latin abridgement of the universal history of Pompeius Trogus: 58
Kames, Henry Home, Lord (1696–1782), judge and writer; advocate-depute (1737); ordinary lord of session, taking the title Lord Kames (1752); author of Essays upon Several Subjects Concerning British Antiquities (1747) and Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural Religion (1751); a founder of the Select Society (1754); director of the British Linen Company (1754-6); vice-president of the Philosophical Society (1755); friend of mentor of figures such as Hume, J.B. and Benjamin Franklin; commissioner of justiciary (1763); industrial and agricultural improver: 85, 290, 365 n. a, 367, 589, 657, 707, 714
Kearney, Dr Michael (1733–1814), scholar; professor of modern history (1769–78), regius professor of law (1776-8) and Archbishop King’s lecturer (1774, 1777) at Trinity College, Dublin; contributed some notes to Malone’s edition of J.B.’s Life; author of Lectures Concerning History (1776): 257
Kearsley, or Kearsly, George (d. 1790), London bookseller; original publisher of Wilkes’s North Britain (1762-3), arrested and sent to the Tower for issuing notorious no.45; bankrupted by legal expenses; later produced the collection The Beauties of Johnson (1781), the indiscriminate selection of which angered the author: 120 n. a, 803 n. a, 1000n. c
Keene (fi. 1775): 475
Keith, Dr Robert (1681–1757), Scottish Episcopal bishop and historian; minister to the Episcopal congregation in Barrenger’s Close, Edinburgh (1713–57); bishop of Fife (1733); author of History of the Affairs of Church and State in Scotland (1734) and A Large Catalogue of Bishops (1755); the most distinguished scholar among the Scottish Nonjurors: 13, 166
Keith, Viscountess, see Thrale, Hester Maria
Kelly, Hugh (1739–77), writer and attorney; author of a novel, Memoirs of a Magdalen (2 vols., 1767), a couplet poem, Thespis (1766-7), and several plays including False Delicacy (1768) and The School for Wives (1774), performed by Garrick at Drury Lane: 581, 584,993
Kemble, John Philip (1757–1823), actor; worked at Drury Lane under Sheridan (from 1783); acting manager of Drury Lane (from 1788); achieved early critical success in this role with Henry VIII and Coriolanus; defected to buy a one-sixth share in Covent Garden (1802); posthumous reputation has suffered for falling between Garrick and Kean: 896–7
Kempis, Thomas