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Levett, Theophilius (1693–1746), town clerk of Lichfield: 48, 93
Lewis XIV (1638–1715), king of France: 72, 284, 351, 470, 473, 705, 1022 n. 54
Lewis XVI (1754–93), king of France: 472, 473
Lewis, David (1683?–1769), poet; published Miscellaneous Poems by Several Hands(1726);inliterary contact with Pope; authorofthe playPhilip of Macedon (1727); contribution to Savage’s Collection of Pieces on Occasion of ‘The Dunciad’ (1732) Praised by Johnson and appreciated byPope: 933–4
Lewis, Mrs (Charlotte Cotterell), wife of Revd John Lewis: 203
Lewis, Revd Francis (fl. 1750): 125
Lewis, Revd John (c.1717–83), dean of Ossory: 203
Lewson, Mrs, seeLeveson Gower, Hon. Mrs
Leycester, George (c.1733–1809), of Toft: 751
Lichfield, George Henry Lee, 3rd Earl of (1718–72), chancellor of Oxford University: 690
Liddell, Sir Henry George (1749–91), 5th Baronet of Ravensworth: 350 n. a
Lilly, William (1602–81), astrologer; author of Christian Astrology (1647), the first major astrological textbook in the English language; leading figure in the Society of Astrologers (1649–58); apparently foresaw the Great Fire of London; produced the almanac Merlini Anglici Ephemeris(1647–81): 616
Lincoln, bishop of, see Green, DrJohn
Linda, Lucas de (d. 1660), Polish writer and state official: 303
Linley, Elizabeth Ann (1754–92), singer and writer; daughter of the musician Thomas Linley; secretly ‘married’ R. B.Sheridan; contributed musically to Sheridan’s The Duenna (1775); became one of the leading politically active Whig women; singing career Suffocated by Sheridan: 458, 1041 n. 490
Lintot, Barnaby Bernard (1675–1736), premier bookseller of the first third of the eighteenth century; regularly published plays performed at Drury Lane (1705– 12); publication of Miscellaneous Poems and Translations included the first ver-sionofPope’sThe Rape of the Lock(1712); continuedto publish importantfirst editions of Pope and Gay; fell out with Pope over the translation ofThe Odyssey; attacked in The Dunciad: 60, 330n. a
Lintot, Henry (1703–58), bookseller; son of Bernard Lintot; inherited his father’s literary copyrights but did little to expand the enterprise other than buying the copyright to The Dunciad when it became available; law printer to the King (1749): 230
Liverpool, 1st Earl of, see Jenkinson, Charles
Livy, Titus Livius (59 bc–ad 17), the greatest Roman historian, whose Ab Urbe Conditatoldthe storyofRome From its founding in142 books, nearlyfour-fifths of which have not survived: 445
Llandaff, bishop of, see Watson, Dr Richard
Lloyd, Mrs: 99
Lloyd, Mrs Sampson (1745–1814), wife of Sampson Lloyd: 508–9
Lloyd, Olivia (Mrs Kirton) (1707–75): 54
Lloyd, Robert (1733–64), poet and playwright; author of poetic epistle The Actor (1760); poetry reviewer for the Monthly Review; founder editor of the St James’s Magazine (1762); friend of Cowper, Colman, Garrick and Churchill; arrested for debt and died in Fleet prison: 210, 442
Lloyd, Sampson (1728–1807), Quaker; founder of Lloyds Bank: 508–9
Lobo, Father Jerome (1595–1678), Portuguese Jesuit missionary: 10, 51, 522
Locke, John (1632–1704), philosopher; tutor at Christ Church, Oxford (1661-7); fellow of the Royal Society (1668); author of Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690) and colossus of empiricism; campaigner for the liberty of the press and religious toleration: 114, 163,357, 717, 821
Locke, William (1732–1810), of Norbury Park, art connoisseur and patron; generous host to French emigres; lifelong friend of Fanny Burney: 786
Lockhart, Alexander, see Covington, Alexander Lockhart, Lord
Lockman, John (1698–1771), author and translator; translated Voltaire’s La Henriade (1732); part of the team that compiled the General Dictionary, Historical