The Life of Samuel Johnson - James Boswell [809]
Townley, Charles (1746–1800?), mezzotint engraver and miniature painter: 1000 n. c
Townley, Mr, of the Commons, brother of the above, engraver: 1000 n. c
Townshend, Charles (1725–67), politician; Secretary at War (1761-2); president of the Board of Trade (1763); first lord of the Admiralty (1763); Paymaster-General (1765); Chancellor of the Exchequer in Pitt’s ministry (1766); associated with the taxation of the colonies and famed for his ‘champagne speech’, hitting targets all round the political spectrum; brilliant but unreliable, career cut short by premature and unexpected death: 378, 520
Townshend, Thomas, 1st Viscount Sydney (1733–1800), politician; Paymaster-General of the Forces (1767); Privy Councillor (1767); one of the most prominent MPs in opposition to North’s ministry; Secretary at War in the Rockingham ministry (1782) before replacing Shelburne at the Home Office and serving under Pitt the younger (until 1789); notable debater: 939
Townson, Dr Thomas (1715–92), rector of Malpas, Cheshire, and religious writer: 929 n. a
Trapp, Dr Joseph (1679–1747), Church of England clergyman and writer; Tory; strong High Churchman; chaplain to Viscount Bolingbroke (1712); translated the complete works of Virgil into blank verse (1733); best-remembered religious work was The Nature, Folly, Sin and Danger, of being Righteous over-much (1739): 10, 976 n. a
Trecothick, Alderman Barlow (1720–75), merchant and politician; Alderman of London for Vintry ward (1764–74); London’s sheriff (1766), then Lord Mayor (1770); New Hampshire’s colonial agent (1766–74); owned shares in a plantation in Grenada and several estates in Jamaica: 560, 632
‘Tribunus’, pseudonym: 83
Trimlestown, Robert Barnewall, 12th Baron (d. 1779): 646–7
Trotter, Alexander, of Fogo, father of the following: 718
Trotter, Beatrix, Thomson the poet’s mother: 718
Trotter, Thomas (d. 1803), engraver: 1000 n. c
Trotz, Prof. Christian Hendrik (c. 1700–73), Dutch jurist: 250–51
Tursellinus, Horatius (1545–99), Italian historian: 47
Turton, Dr John (1735–1806), physician; S.J. wrote some verses to his wife; travelling fellow at University College, Oxford (1761); fellow of the Royal Society (1763); fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (1768); physician to the Queen’s household (1771); physician-in-ordinary to the Queen (1782); physician-in-ordinary to the King and to the Prince of Wales (1797): 611
Twalmley, ‘the great’ (?Josiah Twalmley, ironmonger): 870
Twiss, Richard (1747–1821), travel writer; author of Travels through Portugal and Spain in 1772 and 1773 (1775), read lazily by S.J.; fellow of the Royal Society (1774), withdrawing in 1794; fortune ruined by entering into a speculation of making paper from straw: 447
Tyers, Jonathan (d. 1767), pleasure garden proprietor; transformed Spring Gardens (later the Vauxhall Gardens), near the Thames on the South Bank, into a fashionable venue for evening entertainment; S.J. and J.B. were both visitors; a high quality of musical entertainment attracted the visits and performances of musicians such as Handel and a young Mozart: 689
Tyers, Thomas (1726–87), writer; eldest son of Jonathan Tyers; acquaintance of S.J. and J.B.; the inspiration behind S.J.’s portrayal of Tom Restless (The Idler, no. 48); author of Political Conferences (1780), a series of imaginary conversations between statesmen, and adulatory pieces on Pope and Addison; regular contributor to the Gentleman’s Magazine, publishing a ‘biographical sketch’ of S.J. on the author’s death in 1784: 315, 689–90
Tyrawley, James O’Hara, 2nd Baron (1690–1773), field marshal and diplomatist: 373
Tyrconnel, John Brownlow, Viscount (d. 1754), MP: 99 and nn. a and b
Tyrwhitt, Thomas (1720–86), literary editor and critic; clerk of the House of Commons (1762); fellow of the Royal Society (1771); curator of the British Museum (1784); examined or edited Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Aristotle and Euripides; assisted