The Life of Samuel Johnson - James Boswell [806]
Taylor, Dr John (1704–66), classical scholar and Church of England clergyman; librarian (1732) then registrar (1734–51) of Cambridge University; published an edition of Demosthenes contra Leptinem (1741); chancellor of the diocese of Lincoln (1744–66); archdeacon of Buckingham (1753); author of Elements of the Civil Law (1755): 695
Taylor, Dr John (1711–88), friend of S.J.; chaplain to the Duke of Devonshire, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (1737–45); prebend at Westminster (1746–88); mediated between S.J. and Garrick in the quarrel over Irene (1749); read the service at S.J.’s funeral: 17, 29, 38, 40, 46, 49, 96, 97 and n. a, 105, 110, 131, 132, 493, 512, 515, 518, 519, 544, 577, 590, 592, 595, 596, 597, 603, 604, 605, 606 and n. b, 607, 609, 611, 614, 618, 621, 623, 624, 625, 626, 627, 631, 635, 644, 652, 653, 888, 889, 912, 973, 974 and n. a, 989 n. a, 999
Taylor, John (1703–72), itinerant occultist; published his journeys and associations in the History of the Travels and Adventures of the Chevalier John Taylor (1761-2); one of the principal medical entrepreneurs of the day; treated Handel (1758); subject of many satires due to the charlatan nature of his self promotion: 733
Taylor, John (1711–75), button manufacturer; co-founder of Birmingham’s first bank (1765), growing to become Lloyds Bank in 1852; a ‘valuable acquaintance’ to S.J.; pioneered several lucrative and ingenious methods in button-manufacturing: 51
Taylor, Mrs (Mary Tuckfield), second wife of the above: 131
Taylor, John (1732–1806), amateur landscape-painter of Bath: 752
Temple, Revd William Johnson (1739–96), Church of England clergyman and essayist; Whig; lifelong friend of Boswell; acquaintance and admirer of Gray; account of Gray appropriated by the biographies of Mason and S.J.; vicar of St Gluvias near Penryn in Cornwall (1776); author of Moral and Historical Memoirs (1779); famed only through association: 231, 266, 393, 432, 460, 850 n. b
Temple, Sir William (1628–99), diplomat and author; special ambassador to the Netherlands (1667-8), returning as resident ambassador (1668–70); partly responsible for arranging the marriage between William of Orange and Mary; Master of the Rolls in Ireland (1677); MP for Cambridge University (1679); reputation has been secured by the admiration of Swift and S.J., the former publishing many of his letters and miscellanea and making him the hero of The Battle of the Books: 122, 173, 385, 489, 663, 702, 975, 1070 n. 1248
Terence, Publius Terentius Afer (c. 195–159 bc), Roman comic playwright: 59, 772
‘Tetty’, or ‘Tetsey’, S.J.’s affectionate contraction of his wife’s name: 58
Themiseul de Saint-Hyacinthe (1684–1746); French author of the Histoire du Prince Titi: 471
Theobald, Lewis (1688–1744), literary editor and writer; attacked Pope’s editing abilities with Shakespeare Restored (1726) before publishing his own Shakespeare (1733); ridiculed thoroughly in The Dunciad; reputation recovered by the success of his own editorship; denigrated in S.J.’s preface to his own Shakespeare (1765): 177
Theocritus (fl. c. 270 BC), ancient Greek pastoral poet: 45, 59, 764
Thicknesse, Philip (1719–92), travel writer; author of A Year’s Journey through France, and Part of Spain (2 vols., 1777) and The Valetudinarian’s Bath Guide (1780); contributor to the Gentleman’s Magazine; engaged in a feud with Smollett and irascible nature led to many quarrels, most publicly with his sons: 651
Thirlby, Dr Styan (c. 1692–1753), textual critic and theologian; fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge (1712); published a folio edition of St Justin Martyr’s Apologiae duae et dialogus cum Tryphone Judaeo cum notis et emendationibus (1722); projected edition of Shakespeare unpublished but marginalia consulted by Theobold and S.J. for their editions: 854
Thomas, Nathaniel (1731–95), editor and proprietor of The St. James’s Chronicle: 569 n. a
Thomson, Elizabeth (d. c. 1746),