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Ward, Joshua (1685–1761), medical practitioner and inventor of medicines; satirized in at least four references by Pope as a ‘quack’; patented a process for the relatively cheap manufacture of sulphuric acid (1749); recipient of royal patronage after treating George II’s dislocated thumb: 733
Warren, Dr Richard (1731–97), physician: 252, 754, 988, 995
Warren, John (1673–1743), of Trewern, Pembrokeshire: 53
Warren, Thomas (d. 1767), Birmingham bookseller: 50–51
Warton, Dr Joseph (1722–1800), poet and literary critic; youthful author of the poem The Enthusiast, or, The Lover of Nature (1744); translated Virgil (4 vols., 1754); headmaster of the Winchester school (1766); contributed lastingly to literary scholarship with An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope (1756); member of the Literary Club (1777); disliked by S.J. after an earlier friendship; remained a friend of luminaries such as Garrick and Reynolds: 13, 113 n. a, 137–8, 166, 175, 221 n. a, 236, 252, 282 n. a, 284, 320, 349, 564 n. a, 584, 588, 647, 722, 740 n. a
Warton, Mrs (d. 1772), Mary, first wife of the above: 320
Warton, Revd Thomas (1728–90), the younger, historian of English poetry: 6, 48 n. a, 96, 146, 148 and n. a, 149 and nn. a and b, 150 nn. a-f, 151 and nn. a and b, 152 nn. a-d, 154 and n. c, 158 and nn. a, c and d, 162, 164 n. a, 173 and nn. b, c and d, 175, 177, 179 and nn. b and c, 180 nn. a and b, 181, 252, 297, 319, 441 n. a, 502–4, 544 n. a, 766, 843 n. a, 938
Waters, Ambrose (fl. 1660): 989 n. a
Waters, Mr (fl. 1766), Paris banker: 262
Watson, Dr Richard (1737–1816), bishop of Llandaff (1782–1816); advocate of religious toleration; professor of chemistry (1764–73) then regius professor of divinity (1771) at Cambridge University; fellow of the Royal Society (1769); archdeacon of Ely (1779); failed to progress from Llandaff after the deaths of all his important allies: 828
Watson, Robert (c. 1730–81), historian and rhetorician; professor of logic, rhetoric and metaphysics at St Andrews (1756), later becoming principal (1778); visited by J.B. and S.J.; best known for The History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain (2 vols., 1777) and an incomplete history of Philip III, both conceived as sequels to Robertson’s history of Charles V: 575
Watts, Dr Isaac (1674–1748), Independent minister and writer; minister of the Independent church at Mark Lane, London (1702); poet of the Horae lyricae (2 books, 1706); hymn writer; venerated by S.J. for his opposition to Locke and educationalist concerns in works such as the catechistic Short View of the Whole Scripture History (1732); his Divine Songs… for Children (1715) imitated and parodied by Blake and Lewis Carroll; friend and correspondent of Philip Doddridge: 168, 589, 717, 724 and n. a, 936
Wedderburne, Alexander, see Loughborough, Alexander Wedderburne, ist Baron
Welch, Anne (d. 1810), younger daughter of Saunders Welch: 640
Welch, Father (d. 1790), of the English Benedictine Convent, Cambrai: 477
Welch, Jane, see Nollekens, Mrs Mary
Welch, Mary, elder daughter of Saunders Welch, see Nollekens, Mrs Mary
Welch, Saunders (1710–84), Justice of the Peace for Westminster: 640–41, 739, 866
Wentworth, Mr, ‘son’ of one of S.J.’s masters: 32
Wentworth, RevdJohn (c. 1677–1741), headmaster of StourbridgeSchool: 31–32
Wesley, Revd Charles (1707–88), Church of England clergyman and a founder of Methodism; brother of John Wesley; itinerant evangelist under the influence of his brother; less inclined to travelling than John, settling as minister in Bristol (1756–71) before moving to London in 1771; perhaps the greatest of English hymn writers: 684
Wesley, Revd John (1703–91), Church of England clergyman and a founder of Methodism; converted in 1738 after contact with Moravians during his years in Georgia; slowly organized a recognizable ‘Methodism’ (1738–48); clashed very publicly with the Church of England and Calvinists; strongly empiricist in principal; propounded the doctrine of perfection; prolific writer on a range of theological