The Life of Samuel Johnson - James Boswell [800]
Sharp, Dr John (d. 1792), archdeacon of Northumberland: 256
Sharp, Samuel (1700?–78), surgeon; author of A Treatise on the Operations of Surgery(1739), thefirst monographinEnglishonthe subject; fellowof the Royal Society (1749); surgeon at Guy’s Hospital (1733–57); published his tour memoirs as Letters from Italy (1766), admired by S.J.; acquaintance of Voltaire; implemented numerous improvements in surgical technique and equipment: 191, 546
Sharpe, Dr Gregory (1713–71), Church of England clergyman and author; vicar of All Saints, Birling, near Maidstone (1743–56); vicar of Purton, Wilts. (1761); chaplain to George III (1762–71); author of the Rise and Fall of the Holy City and Temple of Jerusalem (1765) and the Origin and Structure of the Greek Tongue (1767); translated Aristophanes for Charlotte Lennox’s edition of Greek theatre; fellow and the director of the Society of Antiquaries when he died: 328
Shaw, Cuthbert (1739–71), poet; performed as an actor in Samuel Foote’s The Minor (Haymarket, 1760); author of The Race (1765), asatire in the spirit of the Scriblerians, and A Monody to the Memory of a Young Lady (1768); editor of the Middlesex Journal and dabbler in opposition politics: 280 and n. a
Shaw, DrThomas (1694–1751), African traveller: 825
Shaw, Revd William (1749–1831), Gaelic grammarian and lexicographer; S.J. his friend and mentor; author of An Analysis of the Gaelic Language (1778) and A Galic and English Dictionary (2 vols., 1780); joined S.J. in his scepticism of the authenticity of Macpherson’s ‘Ossianic’ poems in An Enquiry into the Authenticity of the Poems Ascribed to Ossian (1781): 16, 576, 577, 639, 901
Shebbeare, Dr John (1709–88), physician and political writer; Tory; author of the novels The Marriage Act (1754) and Lydia (1755); seditious satirist criticizing the Hanoverian succession in a series of ‘letters’, beginning with Letters on the English Nation (1755); feuded with Ralph Griffiths and Smollett; presented a pension by George III; made few friends and many enemies for his uncompromising, vitriolic style: 825, 881
Shelburne, William Petty, 2nd Earl of, afterwards 1st Marquis of Lansdowne (1737–1805), prime minister (1782); Pittite; aide-de-camp to George III (1760); first lord at the Board of Trade (1763); Secretary of State for the South (1766–8, 1782); subsequently joined Rockingham and Grenville in opposition; knight of the Garter (1782); first lord of the Treasury (1782); career effectively over at forty-five after tendering his resignation from the Treasury: 666, 861, 869, 919 n. a
Shenstone, William (1714–63), writer; alumnus of Pembroke College, Oxford; author of The School-Mistress (1742); friend of the poets James Thomson and Richard Graves; contributor to the Gentleman’s Magazine; poems took on an increasingly reclusive and melancholic tone; admired by S.J., Hazlitt and Burns: 46, 505 and nn.b andc, 886
Sheridan, Charles Francis (1750–1806), author and politician; brother of R. B. Sheridan; established a reputation with his History of the Late Revolution in Sweden (1778); Irish MP (1776–90) on the favour of Sir Robert Tilson Deane; under-secretary in the military department of the Chief Secretary’s office in Dublin (1782); much paler shadow of his younger brother: 677
Sheridan, Frances (1724–66), novelist and playwright; mother of Charles and R. B. Sheridan; wife of Thomas Sheridan; admired by S.J. and J.B.; author of the sentimental novel Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph (1761) and the comedy The Discovery, staged by Garrick at Drury Lane (1763): 191 and n. c, 206–7
Sheridan, Mrs R. B., see Linley, Elizabeth Ann
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751–1816), playwright and politician; author of the plays The Rivals (1775), The School for Scandal (1778) and The Critic (1779); mocked sentimental comedy; manager of Drury Lane (1776); member of the Literary Club (1777); under-secretary to Fox in the Northern Department (1782); opposed