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Lawrence, Revd Charles (d. i79i), son of Dr Thomas Lawrence: 759, 1059 n. 937
Lawrence, William Chauncy (d. 1783), advocate to the East India Company and son of Dr Thomas Lawrence: 802
Layer, Christopher (1683–1723), lawyer and Jacobite conspirator; hung, drawn and quartered at Tyburn: 91
Lea, Revd Samuel (d. 1773), headmaster of Newport (Shropshire) Grammar School: 32
Le Clerc, Jean (1657–1736), critic, theologian and man of letters: 155
Lee, Alderman William (1739–95), London merchant and American diplomat: 560
Lee, Arthur (1740–92), American diplomat: 555, 560
Lee, John (1733–93), barrister and politician; committed Unitarian and close friend of Joseph Priestley; legal adviser to the Rockingham party; recorder of Doncaster (1769); Solicitor-General (1782); Attorney General (1784); King’s Attorney General and Serjeant of the County Palatine of Lancaster (1782–93); friend of J.B.: 645
Lee, Nathaniel (i653?-92), dramatist and poet; author of, among other plays, Theodosius; sometime inmate of Bedlam; died in the street: 516
Leeds, Francis Godolphin Osborne, 5th Duke of (1751–99), politician; lord of the bedchamber (1776-7); Lord Chamberlain of the Queen’s household (1777–80); Privy Councillor (1777); Lord Lieutenant of East Riding (1778–80); Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (1783–91); knight of the Garter (1790): 252, 282 n. a
Leeds, Mr, grammarian: 59
Leeds, Thomas Osborne, 4th Duke of (1713–89): 769–70 andn. a
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Leibnitz, Gottfried Wilhelm (1646–1716), German philosopher: 80, 343
Leicester, Mr, Beauclerk’s relation, see Leycester, George
Leland, Councillor (fl. 1778), Irish barrister and son of the historian: 695
Leland, Dr Thomas (1722–85), historian and Church of Ireland clergyman; professor of history (1761) then oratory (1762) at Trinity College, Dublin; chaplain to Lord Townshend (1768); author of aHistory of Ireland(1773) and Sermons on Various Subjects (1788): 257, 397, 581, 691
Lennox, Charlotte (1720–1804), novelist and writer; lifelong friend of S.J. after her first novel, Harriot Stuart (1750), had attracted his attention; best known for The Female Quixote (1752); compiled and edited Shakespeare Illustrated (1753-4); American scenes in Harriot Stuart and Euphemia (1790) earned her the title of‘the first American novelist’: 12, 14,16, 139,167, 185,196, 417,768, 915
Le Roy, Julien (1686–1759), confused by S.J. with his elder son Pierre: 471
LeRoy, Pierre (1717–85), French horologist: 471
Leslie (or Lesley), John (1527–96), bishop of Ross (1566), historian and conspirator; parson, canon and prebendary of Oyne (1559); chief adviser on ecclesiastical affairs to Mary, queen of Scots; forced into exile; author of a vernacular History of Scotland (1570): 407
Leslie (or Lesley), Revd Charles (1650–1722), Nonjuring Church of Ireland clergyman; Tory; served as a primary conduit of information between the Nonjuring community in England and the Stuart court in the 1690s; published a bi-weekly newspaper, The Rehearsal (1704-9); Jacobite agent (by 1711); author of The Case of the Regale, and the Pontificate Stated (1700), The Finishing Stroke (1711) and Short Method with the Deists (1694): 922 n. b
Lettsom, Dr John Coakley (1744–1815), physician and philanthropist; correspondents included George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and Erasmus Darwin; lifelong Quaker; author of The Natural History of the Tea Tree (1772); co-founder of the General Dispensary in Aldersgate Street (1770); co-founder of the Royal Humane Society (1774); co-founder of the Medical Society of London (1773): 555
Lever, Sir Ashton (1729–88), natural history collector; fellow of the Royal Society (1773); opened a museum or Holophusikon in Leicester House, Leicester Square, to display his famous collection; knighted (1778); lost his collection to debt: 947
LevesonGower, Hon. Mrs (Frances Boscawen) (b. 1746), ‘Mrs. Lewson’: 753
Levett, Levet, or Levit, Robert (1705–82), surgeon and apothecary; member of S.J.’s household from 1756 to