The Life of Samuel Johnson - James Boswell [808]
Thurot, Franc¸ois (1727–60), French naval officer: 819
Tibullus, Albius (c.60–19 bc), Roman elegiac poet; friend of Horace: 506, 1071 n. 1278
Tickell, Richard (1751–93), playwright and satirist; member of Brooks’s Club (1785); employed, via his brother-in-law R. B. Sheridan, as a propagandist for Charles James Fox; committed suicide after financial difficulties; limited success as a dramatist included Anticipation (1778) and The Wreath of Fashion(1778): 695 n. a
Tickell, Thomas (1686–1740), poet and government official; member of Addison’s Whig circle; rival to Pope in translations of The Iliad and The Odyssey; under-secretary to Addison as secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (1714) then Secretary of State for the Southern Department (1717); author of the ballad Lucy and Colin (1725) and the anti-Jacobite epistle From a Lady in England to a Gentleman at Avignon (1717); admired variously by S.J., Goldsmith and Gray: 316, 794
Tillotson, Dr John (1630–94), Archbishop of Canterbury (1691–4); preacher to the Society of Lincoln’s Inn (1663); prebendary at Canterbury (1670–72); dean of Canterbury (1672–89); fellow of the Royal Society (1672); dean of St Paul’s (1689); author of The Rule of Faith (1666); outspoken critic variously of atheism, Catholicism, Socinianism and Unitarianism; presided over a divided Church at a crucial juncture in the history of British faith: 657
Toland, John (1670–1722), freethinker and philosopher; author of Christianity not Mysterious (1695), denying that any tenets of Christianity could be contrary to or above human reason, and Anglia libera (1701), justifying the Protestant succession; propagandist for Harley; fusion of republican and classical ideals helped found a Whig intellectual tradition that influenced Robespierre, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson: 20
Tonson, Jacob (1656?–1736), bookseller; exclusive publisher of Dryden; first to publish a work by Pope, in one of his highly successful anthologies or miscellanies; bought the rights to Paradise Lost and in large part secured Milton’s reputation with his 1688 edition; a founding member of the Kit-Cat Club: 542
Tonson, Jacob (d. 1767), publisher, great-nephew of the above: 143 n. b,
Tooke, John Horne (at first Revd John Horne) (1736–1812), radical and philologist; supporter of Wilkes and later the American revolutionaries; burgess of Brentford (1769); author of The Diversions of Purley (1786), an attempt to democratize language; organized the distribution of Thomas Paine’s The Rights of Man; central figure in the eighteenth-century reform movement and a man who greatly divided public opinion: 715 and n. a
Topham, Edward (1751–1820), journalist and playwright; acquaintance of Wilkes, Pitt, Colman and Sheridan; founder of the daily newspaper the World and Fashionable Advertiser (1787); author of the farces The Fool (1785), Small Talk, or, The Westminster Boy (1786) and Bonds without Judgement (1787); member of the exclusive Lion Club; man of fashion and womanizer: 526 n. b
Toplady, Revd Augustus Montague (1740–78), Church of England clergyman and hymn writer; Calvinist preacher; vicar of Broad Hembury, Devon (1768–78); author of The Doctrine of Absolute Predestination Stated and Asserted (1769); engaged in a protracted controversy with John Wesley regarding predestination; wrote the hymn ‘Rock of Ages’: 393, 396–7
Topsell, Revd Edward (d. 1638?), Church of England clergyman and author; author of The Historie of Foure-Footed Beastes (1607) and The Historie of Serpents (1608); early but unoriginal contributor to natural history: 81
Torre, ‘Signor’ (fl. 1772–4), print-seller and pyrotechnist: 942
Towers, Dr Joseph (1737–99), Dissenting minister and miscellaneous writer: 432, 785
Townley, Charles (1737–1805), collector of antiquities; fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (1786); fellow of the Royal Society (1791);