The Life of Samuel Johnson - James Boswell [792]
Pope, Dr Walter (d. 1714), astronomer and writer; one of the first members of the Royal Society (1661); registrar of the diocese of Chester (1668–1714): 772
Porter, Captain Jervis Henry (1718–63), RN, elder son of Harry Porter: 469
Porter, Harry (d. 1734); mercer; Mrs Johnson’s first husband: 51, 55n.a
Porter, Joseph (c.1724–83), younger son of Harry Porter: 813, 904
Porter, Lucy (1715–86), Harry Porter’s daughter and S.J.’s stepdaughter: 27, 55 n. a, 56, 60,130, 131,468, 511, 515, 593, 735,746, 747,749, 813, 843, 875, 890, 904, 906, 984, 989 n. a
Porter, Mary (d. 1765), actress; took on many of the roles of Elizabeth Barry in over twenty years at Drury Lane, earning a reputation as the ‘capital Actress in tragedy’; most famous parts included Queen Elizabeth in John Banks’s The Albion Queens and Lucia in Joseph Addison’s Cato: 896
Porter, Mrs Sarah, see Johnson, Sarah
Porter, Sir James (1710–86), diplomatist; employed by Lord Carteret on several missions to the Continent; ambassador to Constantinople (1746–62); minister-plenipotentiary at Brussels (1763-5); knighted (1763); fellow of the Royal Society: 740
Porteus, Dr Beilby (1731–1809), bishop of London (1787); chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury (1762); rector of Lambeth (1767); chaplain to the King (1769); bishop of Chester (1776); patron of the Church Missionary Society; leading figure in the movement to abolish the slave trade: 674, 778, 806
Portland, Margaret, Dowager Duchess (d. 1785), widow of the 2nd Duke: 753
Portland, William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, 3 rd Duke of (1738–1809), see Index of Subjects: Coalition Ministry
Portmore, Charles Colyear, 2nd Earl of (d. I785):9ii andn.a
Pott, Dr Percivall (1714–88), surgeon; author of Fractures and Dislocations (1768) and a vast range of other surgical procedures; fellow of the Royal Society (1764); Garrick and S.J. among his patients at Princes Street, Hanover Square; honorary fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (1786); promoter of ethical standards: 894
Pott, Revd Joseph Holden (1758–1847), Church of England clergyman; rector of Beesby in the Marsh, Lincs. (1783–90); archdeacon of St Albans (1789–1813); vicar of StMartin-in-the-Fields (1812–24); archdeacon of London (1813); vicar of Kensington (1824); a governor of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (later treasurer); reputation as theologian and author of Remarks on Two Particulars in a Refutation of Calvinism (1811): 509
Potter, Revd Robert (1721–1804), translator and Church of England clergyman; rector of Crostwight (1754); master of the Scarning Free School (1761); produced blank verse translations of Aeschylus (1777) and Euripides (2 vols., 1781–2); Elizabeth Montagu his friend and patron: 662
Pratt, Charles, see Camden, Charles Pratt, ist Earl
Prendergast, Sir Thomas (i66o?–i709), brigadier-general: 357
Preston, Sir Charles (c.1735–1800), 5th Baronet: 851
Price, Dr Richard (1723–91), philosopher, demographer and political radical; minister at Poor Jewry Lane (1762–70); fellow of the Royal Society (1765); member of Shelbourne’s Bowood Group; founder member of the Society for Constitutional Reform (1780); assailed by Burke in his Reflections; author of Review of the Principal Questions and Difficulties in Morals (1758) and Sermons on the Christian Doctrine (1787): 879, 893 n. a
Prideaux, Dr Humphrey (1648–1724), orientalist: 936
Priestley, Dr Joseph (1733–1804), theologian and natural philosopher; figurehead Dissenter (Arian then Unitarian); partial autodidact; minister to the Dissenting chapel at Nantwich, Cheshire (1758); tutor in languages and belles-lettres at the Warrington Dissenting Academy (1761–7); minister to the Dissenting congregation of Mill Hill Chapel in Leeds (1767–73); winner of the Copley medal for his paper on different