The Life of Samuel Johnson - James Boswell [773]
Knapton, John (d. 1770), bookseller; co-published the authorized text of Pope’s letters (1737) and enjoyed an association with the author from 1725; part of the booksellers who agreed to publish Johnson’s Dictionary in 1746: 104
Knapton, Paul (d. 1755), bookseller; younger brother and partner of John Knapton: 104
Kneller, Sir Godfrey (1646–1723), history and portrait painter; sent by Charles II to paint Louis XIV in France (1684); by the mid-1680s, the most important portrait painter in Britain; joint principal painter for William and Mary (1689), sole principal painter from 1691; knighted and gentleman of the Privy Chamber (1692); made knight of the Holy Roman Empire by Emperor Leopold (1700); continued as principal painter to Queen Anne; developed the ‘kit-cat’ portrait; principal painter for George I: 651–2
Knight, Joseph (fl. 1769–77), a Negro who claimed his freedom in the Court of Session: 16, 638
Knolles, Richard ($$), historian and translator; best known for The Generall Historie of the Turkes (1603); translated Jean Bodin’s La republique (1606); produced an unpublished translation of Camden’s Britannia; writing style praised by S.J. in no. 122 of The Rambler: 59, 1022 n. 48
Knowles, Mrs Mary (1733–1807), poet; on intimate terms with S.J.; author of Compendium of a Controversy on Water-Baptism (ijj6); her account, ‘Dialogue between Dr Johnson and Mrs Knowles’, rejected by J.B. as inauthentic; account on the conversion to Quakerism of Jane Harry later published in the Gentleman’s Magazine (1791): 560, 677–80, 682–4 andn. a
Knox, John (1720–90), bookseller and economic improver; expert on the possibilities of fishing; author of Observations on the Northern Fisheries (1786); closely tied to the Highland Society of London; said to have been the real compiler of William Guthrie’s New System of Commercial Geography (1770): 425, 426
Knox, Dr Vicesimus (1752–1821), headmaster and writer; head of Tonbridge School, Kent (1778–1812); author of Essays Moral and Literary (1778) and Liberal Education (1781); educational reformer: 123 n. a, 945–6, 983 andn. b, 984 n. a
Kristrom, Mr (fl. 1772), a Swede: 343
LaBruyere, Jean de (1645–96), French essayist and satiric moralist; author of the influential Les Caracteres de Theophraste traduits du grec avec Les Caracteres ou les moeurs de cesiecle (1688): 115, 1023 n. 82
Lactantius, Caecilius Firmianus (fl. late 3rd century ad); Christian apologist; reputed to be the author of De Mortibus Persecutorum, a gleeful account of the sufferings of the emperors who persecuted the Christians: 593
Lade, Sir John (1759–1838), 2nd Baronet; Mr Thrale’s nephew: 996, 1071 n. 1285
Langley, Revd William (c.1722–95), headmaster of Ashbourne Grammar School: 596
Langton, Cardinal Stephen (c.i 150–1228), Archbishop of Canterbury; one of the great churchmen of the English Middle Ages, influential in the composition of Magna Carta: 135
Langton, Diana (c. 1742–1809), Bennet Langton Jr’s second sister and wife of Revd Robert Uvedale: 271
Langton Elizabeth (d. 1790), Bennet Langton Jr’s eldest sister: 268, 271, 338, 910–11
Langton, Elizabeth (1777–1804), Bennet Langton Jr’s fourth daughter: 637
Langton, George (1772–1819), eldest son of Bennet Langton Jr; succeeded father in his estate: 338, 412, 846, 911
Langton, Jane (1776–1854), second daughter of Bennet Langton Jr and Mary Langton; S.J.’s god-daughter: 913
Langton, Juliet (c.i757–91), Bennet Langton Jr’s youngest sister and wife of Revd William Brackenbury: 271
Langton, Mary (1773–96), first daughter of Bennet Langton Jr and Mary Langton: 911
Langton, Mrs (c.i 712–93), mother of Bennet Langton Jr; wife of Bennet Langton Sr; daughter of Edmund Turner of Stoke Rochford, Lincolnshire: 175, 181 n. a, 191, 251, 268, 271, 332, 335, 338, 911
Langton, Peregrine (1703–66), of Partney, second son of Bennet Langton Jr and Mary Langton; married Miss Massingberd of Gunby and took her name: 269 and nn. a, b and c
Langton Jr, Bennet (1737–1801), friend of S.J.; as a young man, was so interested in