The Life of Samuel Johnson - James Boswell [780]
Macpherson, James (1736–96), writer; friend of John Home and Adam Ferguson; author of Fragments of Ancient Poetry Collected in the Highlands of Scotland (1760), and the Ossianic poems Fingal (1762) and Temora (1763); works greeted sceptically by S.J. and Hume; nevertheless they exerted a considerable influence on European Romanticism: 166, 210, 418, 420, 421, 422, 424, 428, 429, 678
Macquarrie, or Macquarry, Lauchlan (c.1715–1818), of Ulva:427, 570, 573, 590, 594
Macquarry of Ormaig: 594
Macrobius, Ambrosius Theodosius (fl. 395–423); grammarian and Neoplatonic philosopher: 39, 532
MacSwinny, Owen, see Swinny, Owen Mac
Madden (or Madan), Dr Samuel (1686–1765); writer and benefactor; high sheriff of Fermanagh (1710); Justice of the Peace of Co. Fermanagh and Co. Monaghan (1710); author of Memoirs of the Twentieth Century (1733), suppressed on its first day of publication; close friend of Swift; principally remembered as a philanthropist, funding the Madden prizes at Trinity College, Dublin and further awards for agriculture, arts and manufacture: 171, 434, 876
Maffeus, J.P. (1535–1603), Jesuit author: 476
Maitland, Mr (fl. 1755), one of S.J.’s amanuenses: 106
Maittaire, Michael (1668–1747), scholar: 764
Malagrida, Gabriel (1689–1761), Portuguese Jesuit: 861
Mallet, David (1705?-65); poet; close friend of Pope; author of the Life of Francis Bacon (1740); under-secretary to the Prince of Wales (1742-8); Bolingbroke’s literary executor; friend and adviser to the young Gibbon; hired by the government to defame Admiral Byng; correspondent of Hume; now best known through the hostile account of his freethinking in J.S.’s Life: 145, 177, 217n.a, 327, 345, 384, 628, 731, 740, 883
Malone, Edmond (1741–1812); literary scholar and biographer; member of the Literary Club (1782) and intimate of the Johnsonian circle; editor of The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare (10 vols., 1790), in which he was encouraged and aided by S.J.; made great strides in Shakespearean scholarship; struck up one of the great literary collaborations in English literature with J.B. from 1785; helped J.B. to revise his Life of Johnson, and prepared the third edition for the press: 5, 9, 124, 125, 142 n. b, 172 n. a, 192 n. a, 214 n. a, 218, 252, 516 n. a, 544 n.a, 546n. a, 688, 698n.a,735 n. a, 738n.a,786n. a, 790, 791, 837, 843, 892n. a, 944, 953, 985 n. c, 999, 1002 n. b
Malton, innkeeper, see Melton, Philip
Mandeville, Bernard (1670–1733), physician and political philosopher; author of The Fable of the Bees (1714); influence on Hume, Rousseau and Kant; views so widely known that scarcely any intellectual at the time did not at least mention or engage with them: 681–2
Manley, Mrs Mary de la Riviere (1663–1724), playwright and author: 873
Manley, Sir Robert (i626?-88), father of the above: 873
Manning, Mr (c.1714-c.1790), acompositor: 941
Manningham, Dr Thomas (d. 1794), physician: 609
Mansfield, William Murray, 1st Earl of (1705–93), judge and politician; close friend of Pope; Solicitor-General (1742); Attorney General (1754); Chief Justice of the Court of the King’s Bench (1756–86); close association with the Duke of Newcastle; Privy Councillor (1756); twice acted as Chancellor of the Exchequer (1757, 1767); had to deal with both Wilkes and the ‘Junius’ letters: 103 n. a, 344, 359, 363, 381, 382 and n. a, 433, 442, 566, 598, 666, 668, 755, 790, 863
Mantuanus, Baptista (1448–1526), Italian Latin poet: 865
Manucci, Count, a Florentine nobleman: 470, 472, 567, 568
Marana, Giovanni Paolo (1642–93), Italian author of The Turkish Spy: 873 n. b
Marchi, Giuseppe Filippo Liberati (Joseph) (1735?–1808), painter and engraver; invited to reside in England, from Italy, by Sir Joshua Reynolds; one of Reynolds’s most trusted copyists and assistants; exhibited paintings and mezzotints with the Society of Artists (1766–75): 1000 n. c
Marchmont, Hugh Hume Campbell, 3rd Earl of (1708–94), politician: 709–11, 734, 749, 790 and n. b, 791
Marcus Aurelius, emperor of Rome (ad 161–80), whose Meditations, a collection