The Life of Samuel Johnson - James Boswell [793]
Prince, Daniel (d. 1796), Oxford bookseller: 159
Prince of Wales (Frederick Louis) (1707–51), father of George III: 790
Princess Dowager of Wales (Augusta of Saxe-Gotha) (1719–72), mother of George III: 192
Pringle, Sir John (1707–82), baronet, military physician; professor of pneumatics (metaphysics) and moral philosophy in Edinburgh University; physician to the army in Flanders (1742); physician-general (1744–8); present at the battle of Culloden; physician-in-ordinary to the Duke of Cumberland (1749); council member of the Royal Society (1753), later president (1772); physician to the Queen (1761): 348, 495, 522, 523, 526 n. a, 553, 618 n. b, 657
Prior, Matthew (1664–1721), poet and diplomat; Whig who drifted to Toryism; satirized Dryden; British ambassador to The Hague (1692–9); secretary to the new ambassador in Paris (1698); fellow of the Royal Society; member of the Kit-Cat Club; friend of Swift; negotiator for the peace with France (1712–15); author of The History of his Own Time (1740); arguably the most important poet writing between Dryden and Pope; considerable influence on S.J. in his Christian pessimism: 301, 344, 627, 737, 819
Pritchard, Hannah (1711–68), actress and singer; played Monimia to Garrick’s Chamont in Otway’s The Orphan at Drury Lane (1742), later Gertrude to his Hamlet; generally recognized as the great Lady Macbeth of her day; continued to play successfully alongside Garrick until ill health brought her career to an end: 111, 307, 448, 896
Psalmanazar, George (1697?–1763), literary impostor: 192 n. b,693, 867, 915
Pufendorf, Samuel (1632–94), German jurist and historian, best known for his defence of the idea of natural law: 344, 495, 936
Pulteney, Sir William, see Bath, William Pulteney, Earl of
Purcell, Henry (1658?–95), organist and English Baroque composer most remembered for his more than 100 songs, the miniature operaDido and Aeneas, and his incidental music to a version of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, called The Fairy Queen: 445
Pym, John (1584–1643), statesman; prominent memberofthe English Parliament (1621–43) and an architect of Parliament’s victory over King Charles I in the first phase (1642–46) of the English Civil Wars: 322
Queeney, a nickname of Hester, Thrale’s eldest daughter, see Thrale, Hester Maria
Queensberry, Charles Douglas, 3rd Duke of (1698–1778), friend of Gay, courtier and politician; lord of the bedchamber (1721); vice-admiral of Scotland (1722); Privy Councillor (1726); resigned offices after his wife’s outrage at the Lord Chamberlain’s refusal to license the performance of John Gay’s Polly (1729); keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland (1761–3); Lord Justice-General (1763–78); characterized by J.B. as ‘a man of the greatest humanity and gentleness of manners’: 458
Quevedo y Villegas, Francisco Gomez de (1580–1645), Spanish poet and author: 659, 1053 n. 776
Quin, James (1693–1766), actor; took the roles of Othello, Macbeth, King Lear, Brutus in Julius Caesar and Macheath in The Beggar’s Opera while performing at Lincoln’s Inn Fields; England’s leading actor between the death of Robert Wilks (1732) and the London debut of Garrick (1741); generally fell out of favour by comparison with Garrick, but successful as Falstaff to Garrick’s Hotspur in 1 Henry IV(1746): 458, 584, 666
Quintilian, Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (AD c. 35-c. 95), rhetorician and critic of the literature of antiquity: 781, 993
Rabelais, Francois (c.1494-c.1553), French satirist and priest; an eminent physician and humanist; author of the comic masterpiece Gargantua and Pantagruel: 383, 662
Rackstrow, Benjamin (d. 1772), museum proprietor: 939–40
Radcliffe, Charles, titular Earl of Derwentwater (1693–1746), Jacobite conspirator; younger brother of James Radcliffe; the two participated in the Jacobite rising of 1715 and surrendered at Preston; execution deferred until July 1716 but he obtained a stay due to