The Life of Samuel Johnson - James Boswell [804]
Sterne, Laurence (1713–68), writer and Church of England clergyman; author of Tristram Shandy (9 vols., 1759–67) and A Sentimental Journey (1768); heralded variously as the pioneer of the ‘anti-novel’, ‘stream of consciousness’ and the ‘eccentric’; inspired more by Cervantes, Rabelais and Montaigne than by British novelists: 353 and n. b, 378, 780 n. a, 823, 1015, 1043 n. 558
Stewart, Francis, one of S.J.’s dictionary assistants: 106, 749
Stewart, George (d. 1745), bookseller of Edinburgh; father of the preceding: 106
Stewart, Mrs, sister of Francis Stewart: 751, 907, 909
Stewart, Sir Annesley (1725–1801), of Ramalton, 6th Baronet: 807
Still, Dr John (i543?–i6o8), bishop of Bath and Wells (1593); canon of Westminster (1573); archdeacon of Sudbury in Suffolk (1577); vice-chancellor of Cambridge University (1575, re-elected 1592); often erroneously identified as the author of Gammer Gurton’s Needle: 1000 n. a
Stillingfleet, Benjamin (1702–71), botanist and writer; author of Miscellaneous Tracts (1759), a work that gave the Linnaean system of botanical classification greater exposure; cultivated interest in music, publishing Principles and Power of Harmony (1771); anecdote about his dress habit at formal evening assemblies is said to have given rise, indirectly, to word ‘bluestocking’: 823 and n. a
Stinton, Dr George (1730–83), chaplain to Archbishop Secker: 674, 778
Stockdale, John (i749?–i8i4), publisher in London: 179 n. a
Stockdale, Revd Percival (1736–1811), writer; translated Tasso (1770); friend of S.J.; editor of the Critical Review and the Universal Magazine (1771); author of a defence of Pope (1778) and an Essay on Misanthropy (1783); passed over in favour of S.J. for the Lives of the English Poets project: 319, 339
Stone, John Hurford (1763–1818), political refugee: 599 n. a
Stopford, Hon. Edward (1732–94), Major-General: 462
Stow, Richard, of Aspley Guise: 94 n. b
Stowell, Baron, see Scott, Dr
Strahan, Andrew (1750–1831), printer; son of William Strahan; MP (1796–1820); inherited his father’s business: 970
Strahan, Margaret Penelope (1719–85), wife of William Strahan; sister of James Elphinston: 118, 819, 842
Strahan, Revd George (1744–1824), Church of England clergyman; son of William Strahan; fellow of University College, Oxford (1768); vicar of St Mary’s, Islington, London (1772); spiritual counsellor to S.J., who entrusted him with the papers that became Prayers and Meditations (1785): 17, 129, 130, 283 n. a, 789, 913, 973, 989 n. a, 997, 998 n. a
Strahan, William (1715–85), printer; manager of the King’s printing house (1770); expanded enterprises to holding copyright shares in over 400 books and running one of the largest printing firms in London; close friend of Hume, Benjamin Franklin and S.J.; master of the Stationers’ Company (by 1774); member of the Essex Head Club (until 1784): 133, 157, 182, 192, 282 n. a, 332–3, 380, 412, 416, 428–9, 434, 435, 495, 570, 571, 580, 643, 646, 663, 678, 702, 720, 721, 739, 740, 755, 759, 941, 970
Strahan Jr, William (d. 1781), eldest son of William Strahan, and London printer: 818
Stratico, Simone (1733–1824), professor of medicine, mathematics, etc., at Padua: 198
Strickland, Mrs (Cecilia Townley) (1741–1814), friend of Mrs Thrale: 584 n. d
Stuart, Andrew (d. 1801), lawyer and politician; member of the Select Society and the Poker Club; fought a bloodless duel with Lord Thurlow; King’s remembrancer (1771–86); keeper of the signet (1777-9); member of Dundas’s ‘Scotch ministry’; on the Board of Trade (from 1779): 382
Stuart, Hon. and Revd William (1755–1822),