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Marie Antoinette (1755–93), queen of France: 466–7, 472,473
Markham, Dr William (1719–1807), Archbishop of York (1777); head of Westminster School (1753–64); chaplain to George III (1756); vicar of Boxley, Kent (1765–71); bishop of Chester (1771); Lord High Almoner and Privy Councillor (1777): 722
Markland, Jeremiah (1693–1776), classical scholar; author of Epistola critica (1723) and the controversial Remarks on the Epistles of Cicero to Brutus, and on Brutus to Cicero (1745), suggesting the attribution to Cicero of the four orations was spurious; produced an excellent grammatical tract (1761): 854
Marlborough, John Churchill, 1st Duke of (1650–1722), army officer and politician; gentleman of the bedchamber (1674); Colonel of the Royal Regiment of Dragoons (1683); gentleman of the King’s bedchamber (1685); promoted Lieutenant General (1688); defected to William during the Glorious Revolution; Commander-in-Chief of the army in England (1690); restored to William III’s favour as Privy Councillor (1698); knight of the Garter (1702); Captain General of British forces under Queen Anne; Allied Commander-in-Chief during the War of the Spanish Succession, in which he gained a string of brilliant victories; dismissed from all offices (1711); restored as Captain General of the land forces under George I (1714); widely resented for his alleged avarice and ambition; one of the greatest generals in British history: 8, 11, 357, 504, 547, 628, 731
Marlborough, Sarah, Duchess of (1660–1744), politician and courtier; groom of the stole and Anne’s closest adviser (1685); reconciled Anne to William III (1695); mistress of the robes, groom of the stole, keeper of the privy purse, and ranger of Windsor Park (1702); stripped of all offices at court after arguments with Anne (1711); crucial in propping up Marlborough’s massive influence: 88, 808
Marshall, William (1745–1818), agriculturalist: 1055 n. 825
Marsili, or Marsigli, Dr (fl. 1757–79), Italian physician: 173, 198
Martène, Dom (1645–1739), and Durand, Dom (1682–1773), Benedictines of St Maur: 475
Martial, Marcus Valerius Martialis (c.ad 40–104), Roman epigrammatist: 663, 859 n.a
Martin, Gilbert (d. 1786), see Index of Subjects: Apollo Press
Martin, Martin (d. 1718), traveller and author of Description of the Western Islands of Scotland (1703) and The Late Voyage to St. Kilda (1698); collector of curiosities, natural historian and ethnographer: 237, 655
Martinelli, Vincenzo (1702–85), miscellaneous author: 377–9
Mary Magdalen: 766
Mary, queen of Scots (1542–87): 14, 189, 242, 405, 412, 419 n. c, 425
Masenius, Jacobus (1606–81), German Jesuit: 127
Mason, Mrs, afterwards Lady Macclesfield and Mrs Brett, see Macclesfield, Anne, Countess of
Mason, Revd William (1724–97), poet and garden designer; innovative format of his The Poems of Mr Gray, to which are Prefixed Memoirs of his Life and Writings(1775) provided J.B. withamodel for hisLife; much satirizedby contemporary authors and S.J. His favourite enemy;authorofThe English Garden(4books, 1772–81), over 2, 400 lines of blank verse; politically, largely in opposition: 21, 22, 347, 432, 442, 535, 682, 938
Massinger, Philip (1583–1640), playwright; collaborated with the likes of John Fletcher and Thomas Dekker; company dramatist of the King’s Men (c.1625); authoroftheANewWaytoPay OldDebts(1625)andThe CityMadam(1632): 742
Masters, Mrs (d. 1771), poetess: 898
Mathias, James (c. 1710–82), merchant: 813
Maty, DrMatthew (1718–76), physician and librarian; fellow of the Royal Society (1751); licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians (1765); founder of the Journal Britannique(1750); issueon S.J.’sDictionary(1755) angered the author; one of the three original under-librarians of the British Museum (1756), later first principal librarian (1772); biographer of the Earl of Chesterfield: 155
Maupertuis, Pierre Louis Moreau de (1698–1759), French mathematician and philosopher: 291 n. a
Maxwell, Dr William (1732–1818), friend of S.J.: 320,