The Life of Samuel Johnson - James Boswell [797]
Rubens, Peter Paul (1577–1640); Flemish painter best known for his religious and mythological compositions: 471
Rudd, Margaret Caroline (d. c. 1798), courtesan and accused forger; implicated in the bank loan swindle of the brothers Robert and Daniel Perreau; found not guilty; reputed mistress of Baron Lyttelton; J.B.’s mistress for some time in the mid-1780s: 504, 561, 702
Ruddiman, Thomas (1674–1757), printer, classical scholar and librarian; assistant librarian at the Advocates’ Library, Edinburgh (1702), later keeper (173 o); author of Rudiments of the Latin Tongue (1714): 118 and n. a, 272, 375, 725
Ruffhead, Owen (1723–69), legal writer; book reviewer for the Gentleman’s Magazine; produced Warburton’s Life of Pope (pub. 1769), for which he was criticized by S.J.; died shortly before entering his appointment as one of the chief secretaries of the Treasury: 349
Russell, Dr Alexander (c.1715–68), physician and naturalist; one of the founder members of the Medical Society of Edinburgh University (1734); author of a Natural History of Aleppo (1756), reviewed by S.J. in the Literary Magazine; fellow of the Royal Society (1756); physician to St Thomas’s Hospital, London (1760): 166, 859
Russell, WilliamRussell, Lord (i639~83), politician: 372, 672
Rutland, Roger Manners, 5 th Earl of (1576–1612), nobleman; intimate of the Earl of Essex and possibly implicated in the Essexian coup; received the favour of James I; assigned to bestow the Garter upon Christian IV of Denmark: 228
Rutty, Dr John (1698–1775), physician; founding member of the Medico-Philosophical Society of Dublin (1756); author of A History of the Rise and Progress of the People called Quakers in Ireland (1751); A Spiritual Diary and Soliloquies (2 vols., 1776) satirized by S.J. for its repetitive cataloguing of his faults: 614–15
Ryland, John (1717?~98), friend of S.J.; contributor to the Gentleman’s Magazine; the last surviving friend of S.J.’s early life; member of the Essex Head Club and the Ivy Lane Club; staunch Whig; Dissenter; scarcely mentioned by J.B.: 133, 957, 963
Sacheverell, Dr Henry (1674?-! 724), Church of England clergyman and religious controversialist; senior dean of arts (1708) and bursar (1709) at Magdalen College, Oxford; impeached for inflammatory sermons offending the Whigs (171 o); banned for preaching for three years before the ascendancy of the Whig party and the accession of George I ended hopes of preferment, as a High Churchman: 26
St Albyn, Revd Lancelot (c. 1722–91), rector of Parracombe and vicar of Wemble-don, Somerset: 848
St Asaph, bishops of, see Horsley, Dr Samuel; Shipley, Dr Jonathan
St David’s, bishops of, see Horsley, Dr Samuel; Stuart, Hon. and Revd William
St Helens, Baron, see Fitzherbert, Alleyne
Salisbury, bishops of, see Burnet, Gilbert; Douglas, Dr John
Sallust, Gaius Sallustius Crispus (86–35 BC), wealthy Roman politician and historian, author of histories of the conspiracy of Catiline and the Jugurthine War in North Africa; ‘the great master of nature’: 23, 59, 302, 871, 976 n. a
Salusbury, Hester Lynch: 259; see also Thrale, Mrs
Salusbury, Hester Maria (1709–73), Mrs Thrale’s mother: 401, 705
Sanadon, Noel Etienne (1676–1733), French scholar: 558 n. a
Sanderson, Dr Robert (1587–1663), bishop of Lincoln (1660–63); doctrinal Calvinist; rector of Boothby Pagnell (1619–60); King’s chaplain (1631); regius professor of divinity at Oxford (1646-8): 122, 989 n. a
Sanderson, or Saunderson, Nicholas (1682–1739), mathematician: 361
Sands, Murray and Cochran, printers of Edinburgh: 117 n. a
Sandwich, John Montagu, 4th Earl of (1718–92), politician and musical patron; first lord of the Admiralty (1748–51, 1763–5, 1771–82); friend of Garrick; Secretary of State (1771); engaged in major project to reform the dockyards; leadingpromoter of the great Handel commemoration (1784); partly responsible for the naval disasters of the 1770s: 730 andn. 900
Sandys, Colonel Edwin (i6i3?-42), son of the below: 475
Sandys, George (1578–1644), writer and traveller; treasurer of Virginia