The Life of Samuel Johnson - James Boswell [794]
Radcliffe, Dr John (1650–1714), physician and philanthropist; principal physician to James II’s daughter, Princess Anne of Denmark (1686); fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (1687); MP for Buckingham (1713); his estate after death provided for two medical travelling fellowships at Oxford as well as funds to build the Radcliffe Infirmary, the Radcliffe Observatory and the Lunatic Asylum, Oxford: 926
Radcliffe, Dr John, see Ratcliff, Dr John
Ralegh, Sir Walter (1552? –i 618), courtier, explorer, author; favourite of Elizabeth I; developed the initiative to colonize America; not, as the famous myth goes, responsible for bringing tobacco to England for the first time, but certainly central to its popularization; court poet; searched for the fabled treasure of El Dorado; imprisoned in the Tower at the start of James I’s reign; author of The History of the World (1614); executed (1618), a victim of royal high-handedness: 126
Ramsay, Allan (1686–1758), poet and bookseller; one of the original members of the quasi-Jacobite Easy Club; author of the ‘medieval poem’ Christ’s Kirk on the Green (1718) and the pastoral The Gentle Shepherd (1725); early avatar of the primitivism and folklorism popular in the 1760s: 377
Ramsay, Allan (1713–84), portrait painter; son of the poet Allan Ramsay; fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (1743); founder member of the Edinburgh debating club, the Select Society (1754); author of A Dialogue on Taste (1755); royal portrait artist; vice-president of the Society of Artists (1765); influential to his friend and fellow artist Reynolds; artist of great distinction: 659, 702, 729, 968 n. a
Ranby, John (1743–1820), pamphleteer; author of the Doubts on the Abolition of the Slave Trade (1791) highly commended by J.B.; partisan Tory: 634
Rann, John, or‘Sixteen-stringJack’ (d. 1774), highwayman: 538
Raphael (1483–1520), master painter and architect of the Italian High Renaissance: 471
Ratcliff, Dr John (1700–75), master of Pembroke College, Oxford: 147
Rawlinson, Dr Richard (1690–1755), topographer and bishop of the Nonjuring Church of England; fellow of the Royal Society; Jacobite; notable and generous benefactor of Oxford University and the Bodleian Library: 854
Ray, John (1627–1705), naturalist, historian of language and theologian; fellow of the Royal Society (1667); author of Catalogus plantarum Angliae (1670), Historia plantarum (1686-8) and a Methodus (1705) of insects; collaborator with Francis Willughby: 307, 393, 455
Ray, Martha (c.1745–79), mistress of Lord Sandwich: 730
Redi, Francesco (1626–98), Italian natural philosopher and poet: 648 n. b
Reed, Isaac (1742–1807), literary editor and book collector; sent notes to S.J. for his Lives of the English Poets in 1781; fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (1777); contributor of biographical articles to the Westminster Magazine (1773–80); author of a Biographia dramatica (1782); re-edited the S.J. and Steeven’s variorum of Shakespeare (10 vols., 1785): 783
Reid, John (d. 1774), convict: 414 n. a
Reid, Thomas (1710–96), natural and moral philosopher; regent at King’s College, Aberdeen (1751); one of the founders of the Aberdeen Philosophical Society (1758–73); author of an Inquiry into the Human Mind, on the Principles of Common Sense (1764); professor of moral philosophy at Glasgow University (1764); active in the Glasgow Literary Society; fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1783): 248
Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–69), Dutch painter and print-maker: 610
Reynolds, Frances (1729–1807), painter, poet and writer on art; younger sister of Sir Joshua Reynolds; exhibited paintings at the Royal Society (1774– 5); author of several drafts of‘The Recollections of Samuel Johnson’ andEnquiry Concerning the Principles of Taste and the Origin of our Ideas of Beauty &c (1789); greatly admired by S.J.: 254, 335, 562, 639, 655, 662, 682, 696, 733, 989 n. a, 1000 n. c
Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723–92), portrait and history painter and art theorist; S.J. was the single most important influence on his life in the 1750s and