BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX

OF CONTEMPORARY PERSONS NAMED OR REFERRED TO IN THE SPECTATOR.

[This Index includes the names of all contemporary persons referred to, or directly intended, in the text of the Spectator. The more famous names in the literary, social, and political history of the time which appear in the Essays are entered for the sake of completeness, but are not described. Further information regarding some of the persons described will be found in the Notes.]

Addison, Joseph (1672-1719).

Addison, Lancelot (1632-1703), Dean of Lichfield, father of Joseph
Addison, probably the 'learned Person' of No. 600.

Anne, Queen (1665-1714). Reigned from 8th March 1702.
Anthony, 'Trusty.' See Aston, Anthony.

Ascham, Mrs. of Conington, Cambridgeshire, grandmother of Lady Hatton, identified by some as the 'Emilia' of No. 302. See note, vol. iv. p. 297.

Aston, Anthony (fl. 1712-1731), actor and dramatist, perhaps Trusty Anthony' and 'The Man of the Bumper Tavern.' See iv. 292.

Atterbury, Francis (1662-1732), Bishop of Rochester.

Baldwin, Mrs. See vii. 274.

Barnes, Joshua (1654-1712), Professor of Greek at Cambridge, who, according to Bentley, 'knew as much Greek as a Greek cobbler.' His best literary attempt is Gerania, a whimsical voyage of the Lilliput type. See Tatler, No. 143.

Barrow, Isaac (1630-1677), mathematician, preacher, and theologian.
He resigned his professorship at Cambridge in favour of his pupil
Isaac Newton.

Baxter, Richard (1615-1691), author of the Saints' Everlasting Rest.
Beasniffe, Francis, the supposed 'F.B.' of No. 443.
Behn, Mrs. Aphra (1640-1689), dramatist and novelist.
Bell, Mr., named in the Essay on Signboards (No. 28).
Bentley, Joanna ('Jug'), daughter of Richard Bentley, married, in 1728,
Denison Cumberland. She is the 'Phoebe' of Byrom's verses in
No. 603. Her son was Richard Cumberland, Goldsmith's 'Terence
of England,' author of the Observer and Anecdotes of Spanish
Painters.

Bentley, Dr. Richard (1662-1742), scholar and critic.

Betterton, Thomas (1635?-1710), actor, the best in the world,' according to Pepys, and especially renowned in his Shakespearian rôles. The Tatler praises his rendering of Mark Antony, Hamlet, Henry VIII., and Othello (Nos. 1, 71, 167, etc.). He adapted seven dramas for the stage.

Beveridge, Dr. (1637-1708), Bishop of St. Asaph.

Bicknell, Mrs. (1695 ?-1723), actress, of Scottish descent, and sister of Mrs. Younger, actress. Steele praises her in the Tatler as well as in the Spectator (see note, v. 297). Her chief parts were, 'Miss Prue,' in Congreve's Love for Love, 'Lady Wrangle,' in Cibber's Refusal, and Miss Hoyden,' in Vanbrugh's Relapse. Bird, William, servant at the St. James's Coffee-house (No. 24). Blackmore, Sir Richard (d. 1729), physician-in-ordinary to William III., a voluminous writer in verse and prose. His Prince Arthur, a heroic poem, appeared in 1695. His Satyr on Wit (1700) was the occasion of a bitter Grub Street feud, in which Tom Brown, Garth, Sedley, Steele, and even Dryden joined. His Nature of Man appeared in 1711, and, in 1712, Creation, “ a philosophical poem," which the Spectator puffed.

Bland, Dr. Henry, Headmaster and Provost of Eton, Dean of Durham. See note, viii. 273.

Boileau Despréaux, Nicolas (1636-1711), French poet and critic. Booth, Barton (1681-1733), actor, pupil of Dr. Busby. He was intended for the Church, but began as actor in Dublin. He was associated with Betterton at the New Haymarket (1705). He crowned his reputation in the 'Cato' of Addison's play (April 1713). He wrote a masque, The Death of Dido (1716). Bouhours, Dominique (1628-1702), French littérateur, chiefly interesting for his critical work, La manière de bien penser dans les ouvrages d'esprit, Paris, 1687 (often reprinted).

Boul, Mr., auctioneer in Chandos-street. (No. 226).

Boyle, Henry, Lord Carleton (d. 1725), politician and holder of several important Government offices. Vol. iii. is dedicated to him. It was said that he prompted Addison to write his Blenheim. Boyle, Hon. Robert (1627-1691), 14th child of the 'great' Earl of Cork, physicist and chemist, member of the Royal Society. He was also an Oriental student.

Brady, Dr. Nicholas (1659-1726), latterly incumbent of Richmond, Surrey. He was the collaborator with Nahum Tate in the wellknown metrical version of the Psalms.

Brome, Dr., clergyman. See note, iv. 297-98.

Brook and Hellier.

Thomas Brook and John Hellier, the leading wine-merchants of the day, whose advertisements are frequent in the Spectator (A). See note, iv. 299, v. 294, and viii. 276.

Brown, Thomas ('Tom') (1663-1704), miscellaneous writer and wit. The most complete edition of his Works is the 4 vol. set of 1760. Buck, Timothy. See vi. 143.

Buckingham, Duke of. See Sheffield.

Buckley, Samuel (d. 1741), printer in Amen - Corner, the first
publisher of the Spectator. See Tatler, No. 18.

Budgell, Eustace (1686-1737), miscellaneous writer.

He was a
cousin of Addison, and collaborated with him in the Spectator.
He wrote a translation of Theophrastus, started and carried on
The Bee (1733-1735), contributed to the Craftsman, and issued
some family monographs on the Boyle family. His later life
was unhappy, and he committed suicide. His style is a poor

imitation of the Addisonian.

Budgell, Gilbert, second brother of Eustace Budgell. See note to
No. 591.

Bullock, Gabriel, a freeholder in Northamptonshire.

v. 287.

See note,

Bullock, William (1657?-1740?), actor, praised by Gildon and
others, but quizzed in the Tatler (No. 188) in a comparison with
Pinkethman (q.v.). See v. 287.

Burdock, Samuel, servant at the St. James's Coffee-house. (No. 24.)
Burnet, Gilbert (1643-1715), Bishop of Salisbury, historian.

Burnet, Dr. Thomas (1635?-1715), philosophical writer, master of the
Charterhouse; author of Telluris Theoria Sacra, 1681-9 (Englished
in 1684 and 1689) and Archaeologiae Philosophicae, 1692 (Englished
in 1692).

Busby, Richard (‘Dr.') (1606-1695), the famous headmaster of West-
minster School.

He

Button, Daniel. Proprietor of the famous Coffee - house (Button's)
in Covent Garden. He had been Addison's servant.
Byrom, John (1692-1763), poet, and contributor of a few pieces to the
Spectator. His Remains were first published in 1773.
invented a system of shorthand.
Campbell, Duncan (1680?-1730), of Scottish origin, a conjuror and
fortune-teller, the 'dumb man' of No. 560, and of the 14th Tatler.
Defoe published an account of him in 1720. Another account,
Secret Memoirs, appeared in 1732.

Carey, Mr., 'of New College, Oxford,' one of the contributors to the
Spectator (see vii. 305). He is probably Walter Carey, M.P.,
afterwards Clerk of the Privy Council, the Umbra' of Pope's 4th
Satire and of the Moral Essays (1st Epistle). See especially Pope's
Three Gentle Shepherds, Umbra, and Sandys' Ghost, where he is asso-
ciated with Philips and Budgell (Elwin and Courthope, iv. 464, 468,
487). Spence names him as one of Addison's 'chief companions'
before Addison married Lady Warwick.

Cassani, Guissepe, opera singer. See i. 22.

Cassini, Giovanni Domenico (1625-1712), astronomer, director of the
Observatory at Paris.

Churchill, John, first Duke of Marlborough (1650-1722).

Cibber, Colley (1671-1757), actor and dramatic author, laureate.
He wrote, wholly or partly, thirty plays, and he is said to have

collaborated in Steele's Conscious Lovers. The story of his theatrical life will be found in his Apology, and incidentally in the Theatre and Anti-Theatre. Steele was a generous admirer in both the Tatler

and Spectator.

Clark, Mrs. Margaret, v. 286-9.

Clay, Stephen, of the Inner Temple, son of Edmund Clay, haber-
dasher. See note, ii. 133: also Tatler, No. 83.

Clayton, Thomas, of the royal orchestra, associated with Dieupart
(q.v.) and Haym (q.v.) in concert schemes at Drury Lane,
till the success of Italian opera at the Haymarket forced them
to retire to York Buildings. He composed several operas and
concert pieces, among them Addison's opera of Rosamond, which
is said to be the worst of his entirely feeble efforts. See iv. 290.
Cleland, Colonel, an alleged original of Will Honeycomb.
notes, i. 311, 312.)

(See

Cliff, Nathaniel, at The Bible and Three Crowns,' Cheapside.
See iii. 85.

Clinch of Barnet, a public entertainer in Bartholomew Lane, behind
the New Exchange. He imitated "the Flute, Double Curtel, the
Organ with 3 Voices, the Horn, Huntsman, and Pack of Hounds
all performed by his natural Voice" (Advt. in 533 A).
Cole, Mrs. See note, v. 286.

Collier, Jeremy (1650-1726), essayist. His Short View of the English
Stage appeared in 1698.

Congreve, William (1670-1729), dramatist.

Courant, Mr. ii. 274.

Coventry, Anne, Countess of. See note, vol. iv. p. 297.

Cowley, Abraham (1618-1667), poet.

Cowper, Baron, the supposed 'Manilius' of No. 467.

Crawley, Sir Ambrose. See note, iv. 297.

Dacier, André (1651-1722), classical scholar.

His most important

work was the translation of Aristotle's Poetics (1692), Englished anonymously in 1705.

Dacier, Madame Anne Tanneguy - Lefèvre (1654-1720), classical
scholar, wife of André Dacier. She translated the Iliad (1699)
and the Odyssey (1708).

Daintry, Mr. 'The Master of the House' in No. 570. Known as
Captain Daintry, because of his connection with the Trained
Bands. See Guardian, No. 84.

Darcey, James, Sedbury, Yorkshire. ii. 274.

Dawks, Ichabod (1661-1730), printer, founder of Dawks's News-Letter
(4 Aug. 1696). See vi. 296.

Dawson, 'Bully,' the supposed original of Shadwell's 'Captain
Hackum,' a notorious ruffian of the neighbourhood of White
Friars. He is introduced in Tom Brown's Letters from the Dead
to the Living.

Day, Mother. viii. 203.

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