The Life of Samuel Johnson - James Boswell [777]
Lofft, Capell (1751–1824), radical editor and writer; Unitarian; edited Paradise Lost (1792) and Virgil’s Georgics (1803); close associate of Coleridge and Haz-litt; opponent of Pitt the younger; warm admirer of Napoleon Bonaparte; met Boswell and Johnson in 1784: 917
Lombe, John (1693?–1722), half-brother of Sir Thomas Lombe, merchant and inventor of silk-throwing machinery; apprenticed to his brother: 611
London, bishop of (1777–87), see Lowth, Dr Robert; (1787–1809), see Porteus, Dr Beilby
Long, Dudley (afterwards North) (1748–1829), politician; MP for St Germans (1780); introduced to S.J. in 1781; member of the Whig Club (1785); a manager of Warren Hastings’s impeachment; MP for Banbury (1808); patron of George Crabb; pallbearer at Edmund Burke’s funeral; mourner at Sir Joshua Reynold’s funeral; popular member of literary and political circles: 805, 809
Longlands, Mr (fl. 1772), London solicitor: 359
Longley, John (d. 1822), recorder of Rochester: 767
Longman, Messrs, London booksellers: 104
Lort, Dr Michael (1725–90): 924 n. b
Loudoun, John Campbell, 4th Earl of (1705–82), soldier: 585
Loudoun, James Mure Campbell, 5th Earl of: 585
Loughborough, Alexander Wedderburne, 1st Baron, afterwards ist Earl of Rosslyn (1733–1805), Lord Chancellor (1793); member of the Select Society; King’s counsel (1763); Attorney General (1778); Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas (1780); legal advice to Pitt on Catholic emancipation brought about the collapse of the ministry; personally loyal to King George III rather than any party: 199, 200, 202, 205, 206, 462, 520
Louis XIV, XVI, see Lewis
Lovat, Simon Fraser, 11th Baron (1667?–1747), Jacobite: 103
Love, James (1721–74), actor and writer; author of aheroicpoem, ‘Cricket’ (1740); performed in Ireland and Scotland with his partner, ‘Mrs Love’; manager of the Canongate Theatre, Edinburgh (1759); migrated to Drury Lane (1762), making his debut as Falstaff; opened a new theatre in Richmond (1765): 345
Loveday, Dr John (1711–89), antiquary and traveller; youthful member of Hearne’s antiquarian circle at Oxford; published for the Gentleman’s Magazine under pseudonyms: 399 n. a
Loveday, John (1742–1809), scholar: 399 n. a
Lovibond, Edward (1724–75), poet; contributor to Edward More’s The World; poem ‘The Mulberry Tree’, on the contrasting characters of S.J. and Garrick, noted with approval by J.B.; poems republished in Anderson’s British Poets (1794): 60
Lowe, Ann Elizabeth (c.1777–1860), elder daughter of the following and S.J.’s god-daughter: 989 n. a
Lowe, Mauritius (1746–93), painter; natural son of Lord Southwell; exhibited at the Society of Artists (1776 and 1779); enjoyed friendship and protection of S.J., who left him a small legacy; reputed to be the author of the art periodical the Ear-Wig (1787): 874–5, 879, 989 n. a
Lowe, Revd Theophilus (c. 1708–69); rector of Merton and of Stiffkey; canon of Windsor: 29, 31
Lowe Jr, Mauritius? (fl. 1813), son of Mauritius Lowe and S.J.’s godson: 989 n. a
Lowth, Dr Robert (1710–87), biblical critic and bishop of London (1777); professor of poetry at Oxford (1741–51); rector of Ovington, Hampshire (1744); royal chaplain (1757); fellow of the Royal Society of London (1765); bishop of St David’s (1766); bishop of Oxford (1766); dean of the Chapel Royal and Privy Councillor (1777); declined the Archbishopric of Canterbury (1783); author of A Short Introduction to English Grammar (1762): 283, 936
Lowth, Dr William (1660–1732), theologian; author of Directions for the Profitable Reading of the Holy Scriptures (1708) and A Vindication of the Divine Authority and Inspiration of the Writings of the OldandNew Testament (1692); dedicated advocate of the Established Church: 547
Loyola, St Ignatius (1491?–! 556), founder of the Jesuit Order: 47
Lucan, Charles Bingham, 1st Earl of (1739–99), member of the Literary Club; husband of Margaret Bingham, Lady Lucas (c.1740–1814), the miniature painter; created Baron Lucan