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Sandys, Sir Edwin (1561–1629), politician and colonial entrepreneur; author of A Relation of the State of Religion (1605); knighted and appointed to the Queen’s council (1603); leader of the Commons; treasurer of the Virginia Company (1619); a director of the East India Company: 122
Sansterre, or Santerre, Antoine Joseph (1752–1809), French brewer and Revolutionary general: 474
Sarpi, Father Paul (1552–1623), Italian patriot, scholar, and state theologian during Venice’s struggle with Pope Paul V; author of the History of the Council of Trent, an important work decrying papal absolutism; an early advocate of the separation of Church and State: 10, 62, 78 andn. a, 79, 80, 81
Sastres, Francesco (fl. 1776–1822), Italian teacher and translator: 530, 989 n. a
Sault, Richard (d. 1702), mathematician and editor: 873 and n. b
Savage, Richard (d. 1743), poet and playwright; illegitimate son of Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers; S.J. his biographer (1744, published anonymously); author of the confessional poem The Bastard(1728) and the anti-clerical satire The Progress of a Divine (1735); source of literary gossip for The Dunciad Variorum (1729); bosom companion of S.J. from 1738: n, 12, 74 n. a, 90 andn. a, 93–100, 94 n. a and n. b, 97 n. b, 98 n. c, 99 n. a and n. b, 112, 134, 582, 583 n. b, 791, 922, 934 n. a, 986
Savile, Sir George (1726–84), 8th Baronet, politician: 755
Scaliger, Joseph Justus (1540–1609), the younger; Dutch philologist and historian whose works on chronology were among the greatest contributions of Renaissance scholars to revisions in historical and classical studies: 309, 502
Scaliger, Julius Caesar (1484–1558), the elder; French classical scholar of Italian descent who worked in botany, zoology, grammar and literary criticism: 40, 109 n. b, 309
Scarsdale, Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Baron (1726–1804); art collector and creator of Kedleston, Derbyshire: 609–10
Schotanus, Christianus (1603–71), Frisian scholar and historian: 250
‘Sciolus’, pseudonym of a contributor to the Gentleman’s Magazine: 708 n. a, 770 n. a
Scott, Archibald, a ghost author created from the signature A. R. Scotus, i.e. Allan Ramsay: 69 n. a
Scott, Dr, afterwards Sir William Scott and Baron Stowell (1745–1836), judge and politician; Advocate General to the Admiralty (1782); King’s Advocate-General (1788); MP for Oxford University (1801–21); judge of the High Court of Admiralty and Privy Councillor (1798); member of the Literary Club from 1778: 665–8, 690, 814, 868, 953, 989 n. a, 1000 n. c
Scott, George Lewis (1708–80), mathematician; considered a Jacobite; member of the Society for Encouragement of Learning (1736); sub-preceptor to Prince George and his younger brothers (1750); commissioner of Excise in London (1758); consulted by Gibbon: 584
Scott, John (1730–83), of Amwell, Quaker poet: 443, 450
Secker, DrThomas (1693–1768), Archbishop of Canterbury (1758); royal chaplain (1732); rector of St James’s, Piccadilly (1733–50); bishop of Bristol (1735); bishop of Oxford (1737); dean of St Paul’s (1750); championed the need for an American bishopric in spite of hostile opposition; energetic and industrious, an administrative workhorse: 24, 778
Segned, emperor of Abyssinia: 52
Selden, John (1584–1654), lawyer and historical and linguistic scholar; author of The Historie of Tithes (1618) and, after turning to Judaic studies, De jure naturali et gentium, juxta disciplinam Ebrorum (1640); legal consultant for Francis Bacon; member of the Long Parliament during the 1640s; keeper of the records in the Tower (1643); one of the twelve commissioners for the Admiralty (1644): 344, 775 n. a
Settle, Elkanah (1648–1724), playwright; author of The Empress of Morocco (c. 1672–3); political propagandist on behalf of the Whig exclusionists before defecting to the Tories in 1682; rival of Dryden, the latter unhappy