Johnson's dictionary of the English language in miniature : to which are added, an alphabetical account of the heathen deities, a list of the cities, boroughs and market towns in England and Wales.

Samuel Johnson

Date:: 1822

Credit: Johnson's dictionary of the English language in miniature : to which are added, an alphabetical account of the heathen deities, a list of the cities, boroughs and market towns in England and Wales. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$ohn Hunter, Esq. Surgeon Extraordinary to the Ring, and Surveyor Gene nil to the Army; anatomy. Hied August 16 1793 1 Edward Gibbon, Esi|.; History of the Roman Empire, he. Died Jauuary 16 179' James Bruce, Esq. of Kinnaird; travels into Abyssinia. Died April ib. Sir William Jones; Law, Arabic and Persian literatuie, &c. Died April 27 ib. Josiah Wedgewood, Esq.; potteries of Staffordshire. Died January S I7<); James Boswell, Esq.; Life of Dr. Johnson, he. Died May 19 i’b. Dr. Andrew Kippis; biography and divinity. Died Octobers ib. James Macpherson, Esq. Ossian, State-Papere, he. Died February 17 1796 Sir William Chambers, architect of Somerset-place, ice. Died March 8 ib: Dr. George Campbell, Aberdeen; Philosophy of Rhetoric New Translation of the Gospels,Sec. Died April 6 ib. Dr. Thomas Reid, Glasgow ; metaphysics. Died October 7 ib. The Right Hon. Horace Walpole, earl of Oxford ; Royal and Noble Authors, AnecV” dotes of Painting, and Miscellaneous Writings. Died March * 1797 Rev. William Mason ; poetry, and Memoirs of Gray. Died April 4 .ib. Edmund Hurke, Esq. statesman, orator, and jiolitical writer. Died July 8 !.!!..] ib Joseph Wright, Esq. Derby, painter. Died August 99 ’ Dr. William Endtield ; theological, miscellaneous. See. Died November* ill. Dr. Richard Brocklesby, physician. Died December is ,b. John Wilkes,Esq.; politics. Died December *8 ib Thomas Sandhy, Esq. ; architecture. Died July 84 .. .'.'17581 Dr. Richard Farmer; l.iterary and Topographical Antiquities, Commentator on Shakesjieare, he. Died September 8 Thomas Pennant, Esq.; natural history and antiquities. Died December 16 ib. William Wales, Esq.; mathematics. Died December 29 ib! William Melmoth, Esq. Pitsoebome'sLetters,&c. Died March 14 1799 George Stephens, F.ll. and A.S.S. Commentator on Shakespeare. Died Jan. 22-...ib. John Strange, LL. D. ; F. R. S. and F.S.A. ; several papers in the Archcrologia. Died March 19 0 ib Hon. Dairies Barrington, F. R. and A. S.S.; observations on the Statutes. Died March 17 « John Norbury, Fellow of Eton College; translation into Greek verse of Gray’s Elegy. Died 1 Sir Francis Buller, Bart, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas’;’ NisiPriis’.'' Hied June* ^ William Cruikshanks, Glasgow; Surgery. Pied June ib. John I wed del; Classical Compositions. Pied July 25 ib Dr. Matthew Young, bishop of Confetti Divinity and Philosophy. Pied November ib. Dr. Hugh Blair, Edinburgh ; Rhetoric and Holies I.ettres. Pied Pecember il>. Sir George Staunton , F. R. S.; History of the Embassy to China. Died Dece’n’.hei 30 ib! William Drake, M. A. h F. R. S. Antiquary. Died May 13 t80I Dr. \\ illiarn Heberden, F. R. S. & S. A.; l.iterary and Medical Subjects. Died May 17 ib. Sir Grey Cooper; Politics. Died July so 3 ib Gilbert Wakefield; Theology, Classic, Lucretius, he. Died September o’.'.!!!!!! ib! ib. iso* Mrs. H. Chapono ; Education and Poetry. Pied December 25.. The Rev. Alexander Geddex, LL. I).; Biblical and Classical subject’s!' Died Feb. 86 „„ Lord Kenyon; Chiet Justice of the Court of King’s. Bench. Died ib. Dr. John Moore ; Zeluco, Travels in France, Italy, Sic. Died Feb. 26 !!!.ib! The duke of Bedford ; Politics, Agriculture, J;c. Died March 8 ib. The earl at Clare Lord High Chancellorof Ireland ; Politics. Died March 27 ib Dr. Fordyce; Physic and Chemistry. Died ib Dr. Darwin; Botany. Died April88 !! Dr. Garnett; Natural Philosophy. Died June 28.!! !!!! n,' Theophilus Lindsey ; divinity. Died Nov. .1 Holcroft ; plays and novels. ’ Died March 93 . . il, Bcilhy Pmtcus ; divinity and poems. Died May IgM K. B By the date, is implied t he time when t he above w, itera died ’; ‘bit when t’ha’t pe- riod happens not to be known, the age in which they flourished Is signified bvfl. The SKSSUT' “ — “*«.« —$