The Life of Samuel Johnson - James Boswell [805]
Stuart, Lieutenant Colonel, Hon. James Archibald (later Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie) (1747–1818), 2nd son of 3rd Earl of Bute: 738, 745, 746, 748
Stuart, Revd James (1700–89), minister of Killin: 278 n. a
Suckling, Sir John (1609–42), poet; gallant and gamester; monarchist; author of the tragedy Aglaura (1637); gentleman of the Privy Chamber in Extraordinary (1638); wit and courtier to Charles I: 695 n. b
Suetonius, Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (c. ad 70– c. 160); historian and antiquarian; biographer of the Roman emperors from Julius Caesar to Domitian: 1027 n. 139, 1029 n. 189
Sully, Maximilien de Bethune, Duke of (1560–1641): 14, 167
Sunderland, Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of (1674–1722), Whig politician; Secretary for the South (1706–10); leader of the Whigs in opposition; Privy Councillor (1714); appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (1714) but avoided the exile when he took up the new vacancy as Lord Privy Seal (1715); Secretary for the North (1717); switched back to Secretary for the South (1718) and assumed the post of Lord President of the Council; had joint control of the ministry with Stanhope (1718–21); endured a battle for power with Walpole during his final years; a devious, pragmatic and subtle politician: 93
Swan, Dr John (fl. 1742), MD: 11, 88
Swift, Jonathan (1667–1745), writer and dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin (1713); secretary and amanuensis to Sir William Temple; author of A Tale of a Tub (1696) and Gulliver’s Travels (1726); editor of the Tory weekly The Examiner (1710–11) and, at that time, the leading Tory propagandist; member of the Scriblerus Club and close associate of Pope, Gay, Arbuthnot and Parnell; exiled to Ireland with the accession of George I and the dominance of Walpole and the Whigs; the finest satirist in English literature: 77, 83, 115, 206, 229, 238, 295, 305, 330, 361, 388, 433 and n. b, 434, 658, 692, 797–8, 862, 921, 1029 n. 198, 1032 n. 256, 1035 n. 327, 1067 n. 1160
Swinfen, or Swynfen, Dr Samuel (c. 1679–1736), physician; lecturer in grammar at Oxford University; godfather to S.J.; grandson of John Swynfen, politician: 41, 48, 49, 644 n. a
Swinfen, or Swynfen, Richard (d. 1726), MP for Tamworth and Dr Swinfen’s elder brother: 48
Swinny, Owen Mac (d. 1754), playwright: 556–7
Swinton, Revd John (1703–77), historian and antiquary: 148
Sydenham, Dr Thomas (1624–89), physician; licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians (1663); author of Methodus curandi febres (1666), revised and greatly expanded as Observationes medicae (1676), the book that made him famous; knighted (1678) after curing Charles II of a bout of illness; close associate of Locke; stressed the importance of keen clinical observation and the development of new, successful methods of treatment: 11, 26, 84, 88
Sydney, Algernon, see Sidney, Algernon
Sydney, Lord, see Townshend, Thomas, 1st Viscount Sydney
Sylvanus, Georgius, Homeric scholar: 743
‘Sylvanus Urban’, pseudonym of Edward Cave: 66
Taaf (fl. 1775): 476
Tacitus, Publius Cornelius (c. ad 55– c. 117), Roman soldier, statesman and historian of great insight and prose stylist of lapidary power: 360
Talbot, Catherine (1721–70), author and scholar; edited Richardson’s Sir Charles Grandison; contributor to The Rambler; most of her substantial works published posthumously –Reflections on the Seven Days of the Week (1770) and Essays on Various Subjects (1772); rational moralist with a particular interest in female instruction: 113
Tasker, Revd William (1740–1800), poet and antiquary; translated Pindar and Horace’s Carmen Seculare (1779–80); met with S.J. in 1779; friend of William Hunter; very moderate success as a writer included the tragedy Arviragus (1796), performed twice at the Exeter Theatre: 725
Tasso, Torquato (1544–95), Italian epic poet whose works exerted a powerful influence on English poetry of the seventeenth century: 702
Taylor, Dr Jeremy (1613–67), Church of Ireland bishop of Down and Connor and religious writer (1660); royalist; Arminian in theology; denied the doctrine of original sin; proponent