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Pepys, Sir Lucas (1742–1830), physician; physician to the Middlesex Hospital (1769); fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (1775) then censor (1777, 1782, 1786 and 1796), treasurer (1788–98) and president (1804–1810); physician-in-ordinary to the King (1792); physician-general to the army (1794): 799, 858, 888
Pepys, Sir William Weller (1740–1825), baronet, Master in Chancery: 754, 809 and n. c
Percy, Dr Thomas (1729–1811), writer and Church of Ireland bishop of Dromore (1782); chaplain and secretary to Lord Northumberland and tutor to his son (1765); King’s chaplain-in-ordinary (1769); friends included Burke, Garrick, Goldsmith and Johnson; author of A Key to the New Testament (1766) and Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765); produced verses on the death of S.J. (1785); dean of Carlisle (1778): 31, 32, 83, 252, 253, 255, 294, 295, 332, 335, 433, 506 n. a, 507 and n. a, 562, 642 n. b, 662, 669–74, 693, 695, 721, 748 n. a, 749, 751, 760 n. a, 817, 934 n. a, 989 n. a
Percy, Hugh, Earl (afterwards 2nd Duke of Northumberland) (1742–1817), soldier and politician: 598, 673
Perkins, John ($$), brewer: 415 n. a, 809, 810, 828, 850, 905, 965, 989 n. a
Perkins, Mrs, wife of John Perkins: 905, 965
Perth, James Drummond, 4th Earl and 1st titular Duke (1648–1716), politician; Lord Chancellor of Scotland (1684); sheriff-principal of the county of Edinburgh and governor of the Bass (1684); chief agent of James IIs administration of Scotland until 1688; exiled after the Glorious Revolution; knight of the Order of the Garter (1706); accompanied James on his unsuccessful attempt to invade Scotland (1708); loyal but unwise in political judgement: 647
Peterborough, bishop of, see Hinchliffe, Dr John
Peterborough, Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of (c. 1658–1735): 947
Petrarch, Francis (1304–74), Italian poet: 38, 53 and n. c, 475
Pether, William (1738?-! 821), engraver: 529 n. a
Petty, Sir William (1623–87), natural philosopher and administrator in Ireland; physician to the army in Ireland (1652); knighted in 1661; published the first map of the Irish counties, Hiberniae delineatio (1685); judge and registrar of the Admiralty Court in Dublin (1676); first president of the Dublin Philosophical Society (1684); enthusiastic, if largely unsuccessful, agitator for administrative, economic and agricultural reform in Ireland: 232, 764
Peyton, Mr (d. 1776), one of S.J.’s Dictionary assistants: 106, 107, 343
Philidor, Francois Andre Danican (1726–95), French musician and chess player; based in London, 1747–54; friend of Diderot; remained famous through reputation as the best chess player in England and France and wrote L’analyze des echecs (1748); composed Le sorcier (1764) and the libretto Ernelinde: 725
Philips, Ambrose (1674–1749), poet and playwright; Pastorals published in Tonson’s Miscellany (1709) and ridiculed by Pope in The Guardian (1713); intimate with Addison; author of the play The Distrest Mother (1712); Proposals for Printing an English Dictionary anticipated much of S.J.’s: 754, 782 n. a, 794
Philips, Charles Claudius (d. 1732), a musician: 85–6, 276
Phillips, Anna Maria, see Crouch, Mrs
Phillips, Peregrine (d. 1801), father of Mrs Crouch: 887
Phipps, Captain, see Mulgrave, Constantine John Phipps, 2nd Baron
Pieresc, Nicolas Claude Fabri de (1580–1637), French antiquary and philologist: 459
Pindar (c. 520–440 Bc), Greek lyric poet, whose bold originality of form and metre greatly influenced Cowley, Dryden, Swift and Gray: 368, 369, 557, 726, 777, 794
Pink, or Pinck, Dr Robert (1573–1647), warden of New College, Oxford: 109 n. b
Pinkerton, John (1758–1826), Scottish antiquary and historian: 945
Piozzi, Gabriel Mario (1740–1809), Italian musician; controversial husband of Hester Thrale: 950
Piozzi, Mrs, see Thrale, Hester Lynch
Pitt, William, the elder, see Chatham, William Pitt, ist Earl of
Pitt, William, the younger (1759–1806), prime minister; son of William Pitt the elder; first lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer (1783); secured independent majority (1784); career