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The Rambler that he obtained an introduction to S.J.; original member of the Literary Club (c.1764); major in the Lincolnshire militia; famous for his Greek scholarship; succeeded S.J. as professor of ancient literature at the Royal Academy (1788): 29, 63, 109 n. a, 112, 133 n. a, 134–6 and n. a, 137, 142 and n. a, 157, 162, 174–5, $$, 179–80 and n. a, 181, 190, 191 n. b, 202, 221 n. a, 228, 251, 252, 268, 269 and n. c, 282 n. a, 284, 286, 294, 296 n. b, 322, 325, 332, 338 n. a, 359, 360, 362, 383, 393, 397, 398, 399, 410,411, 418,423, 433,443, 444, 447, 449, 454, 463, 506, 508 n. a, 539, 564 n. a, 566, 569, 575, 585, 587, 588, 592, 609–10, 627 n. b, 637, 644, 659, 660, 663–4, 674, 676, 677, &99, 701, 706, 707, 715,718, 721 andn. a, 723, 731, 738,749, 751, 753, 763, 765–6, 771, 773–4, 776–9, 796, 803, 807, 816, 837, 845 and n. c, 864, 872, 890, 891, 895, 910, 911n. a, 913, 918 and n. a, 920, 935, 939, 940, 953, 957, 964, 976 n. a, 979, 989 n. a, 992 and n. a, ^^

Langton Sr, Bennet (1696–1769), ‘Old Mr. Langton’, father of Bennet Langton Jr; descendant of the old family of the Langtons of Langton, near Spilsby in Lincolnshire: 172, 179–80, 191, 228, 251, 268, 271

Langton, various members of Bennet Langton Jr’s family not mentioned by name: grandfather (George, 1647–1727), 935; an aunt (?Elizabeth, d. c. 1787), 338, 910–11

Lansdowne, George Granville, Baron (1666–1735), Tory politician and writer; author of the plays TheJew of Venice (1701) and The British Enchanters (1706); Poems on Several Occasions (1712) criticized by Johnson for its slavish imitation of Waller; praised by Pope in the Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot (1735); Secretary at War (1710); lost all offices after the accession of George I; one of the triumvirate directing James III’s affairs in France during the Atterbury plot: 136 and n. a

Lapouchin, Mme (Natalia Lopukhina) (fl. 1743): 707

LaTrobe, Revd Benjamin (1728–86), Moravian minister: 586, 995, 1049 n. 679

Laud, Dr William (1573–1645), Archbishop of Canterbury (1633); president of St John’s College, Oxford (1610–11); dean of Gloucester (1616); bishop of St David’s (1621); bishop of Bath and Wells (1627); chancellor of Oxford University (1630–41); Privy Councillor (1627); committed to the Tower (1641); executed on false charges of treason and popery (1645); controversial figure in his lifetime and in the eyes of posterity: 109 n. b, 347, 374, 471 n. b

Lauder, William (d. 1771), literary forger; contributed to the Gentleman’s Magazine (\j4j); claimed that Milton’s Paradise Lost was largely plagiarized from Jacobus Masenius; introduced to S.J. through Edward Cave; exposed by John Douglas as a forger for these claims; forgery had successfully duped Johnson into providing a preface and postscript: 12, 127 and n. a

Lavater, JeanGaspard (1741–1801), Swiss divine: 1000 n. c

Law, Dr Edmund (1703–87), bishop of Carlisle and theologian; appointed archdeacon of the diocese of Carlisle (1743); author ofEnquiry into the Ideas of Space and Time (1739) and Considerations of the State of the World with Regard to the Theory of Religion (1745); extreme critic of Newtonian natural theology; appointed to the bishopric of Carlisle (1768): 740 n. a

Law, Dr John (1745–1810), bishop successively of Clonfert, Killaloe and Elphin: 748

Law, Robert (fl. 1765), fellow of Trinity College, Dublin: 257

Law, William (1686–1761), devotional writer and Nonjuror; author of A Practical Treatise upon Christian Perfection (1726) and A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life (1729); thinking largely indebted to Bohme; drew on mystical sources that made him suspect to Calvinists and in opposition to the likes of John Wesley andS.J.: 43, 324–5, 922 n. b, 926, 936, 1068 n. 1167

Lawrence, Dr Thomas (1711–83), physician; fellow (1744) then president (1767, re-elected for seven consecutive years) of the Royal College of Physicians; friend of, and physician to, S.J.; author of De natura musculorum (1759); wrote a biography of Harvey (1766): 49, 175, 421 and n. a, 530, 569, 587, 750, 759, 802, 840, 844, 845 n. b, 889, 960

Lawrence, Elizabeth (d.