The Life of Samuel Johnson - James Boswell [783]
Monckton, Hon. Mary (afterwards Countess of Cork and Orrery) (1746–1840), bluestocking: 823 and n. b
Monro, Dr Alexander (1733–1817), professor of anatomy and surgery, Edinburgh: 908
Monsey, or Mounsey or Munsey, Dr Messenger (1693–1788), physician to Chelsea Hospital: 295
Montacute, Lords: 854
Montagu, Mrs Elizabeth (1720–1800), author and literary hostess; the ‘queen of the bluestockings’; hosted literary breakfasts that by 1760 had become large evening assemblies or conversation parties; hosted S.J., Reynolds, Horace Walpole, Burke and Garrick; contributed to Lyttelton’s Dialogues of the Dead (1760); hired Robert Adam to improve her estate at Sandleford; great letter writer, correspondents including Hester, wife of Pitt the elder: 305–6 and n. a, 328, 655, 667, 752–3, 758, 799, 804, 915–16
Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, Baron de (1689–1755), French philosophe and political theorist, whose Esprit des Loix (1748) enjoyed a Europe-wide reputation: 681 n. a
Montgomerie, Margaret, J.B.’s wife, see Boswell, Margaret
Montgomerie-Cuninghame, Sir David, see Cuninghame, Lieutenant David
Montrose, James Graham, 3rd Duke of, see Graham, James Graham, 6th Marquis of
Montrose, William Graham, 2nd Duke of (1712–90), soldier and landowner; father of James Graham, 3rd Duke of Montrose: 653 n. b, 823 and n. b
Monville, Mr (fl. 1775): 470
Moody, John (1727?-! 812), actor and singer; rose to fame at Drury Lane in roles such as Teague in Howard’s The Committee and Captain O’Cutter in Colman’s The Jealous Wife (both 1760–61); Churchill devotes ten lines to him in The Rosciad; chairman of the Drury Lane Actors’ Fund (1805): 444–6
Moor, Dr James (1712–79), classical scholar; translated Marcus Aurelius in collaboration with Hutcheson (1742); professor of Greek at Glasgow University (1747–74); founding member of the Glasgow Literary Society (1752); author of the Greek grammar Elementa linguae Graecae (ij66); welcomed J.B. at the university in 1771: 538 n. c
Moore, Edward (1712–57), playwright and writer; author of Fables for the Female Sex (1744), The Foundling: A Comedy (1748) and The Gamester (1753), a domestic tragedy popular until the middle of the nineteenth century; editor of the periodical The World (1753–6); minor, mainly derivative writer: 113 n. a, 753
More, Dr Henry (1614–87), philanthropist, poet and theologian; most prolific of the Cambridge Platonists; author of An Antidote Against Atheisme (1653), in opposition to Hobbes, An Explanation of the Grand Mystery of Godliness (1660), Divine Dialogues(1668) andEnchiridion metaphysicum (1671); fellow of the Royal Society (1664): 346
More, Hannah (1745–1833), writer and philanthropist; first met S.J. c.1773/4 and entered into the London literary scene; author of Sir Eldred of the Bower (1776), the novel Coelebs in Search of a Wife (1809) and Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education (2 vols., 1799); her play Percy (1777) produced by Garrick; S.J. a literary admirer; campaigned for the abolition of slavery and reform of manners; administrated a dozen charity schools: 662, 816, 818, 823, 915, 932
More, Sir Thomas (1478–1535), Lord Chancellor (1529–32), humanist and martyr; King’s councillor (1518); author of Utopia (1516) and Dialogue Concerning Heresies (1529); sole royal secretary (1522–6); high steward of Oxford University (1524); polemicist; executed for refusal to reject papal jurisdiction after Henry VIII’s divorce (1535); canonized by Pope Pius XI (1935): 159, 475
Morgagni, Giovanni Battista (1682–1771), professor of anatomy at Padua: 291
Morgann, Maurice (1726–1802), colonial administrator and literary scholar; official adviser to Shelburne (1763); under-secretary to Shelburne (1766); Privy Council’s agent to Quebec (1767); author of An Essay on the Dramatic Character of Sir John Falstaff (1777), on the subject of which he quarrelled with S.J.: 869–70
Morin, Dr Louis (1635?–1715), French physician and botanist: 11, 86
Morris, Corbyn (1710–79), customs administrator