THE

BRITISH PLUTARCH,

CONTAINING

THE LIVES

OF THE MOST EMINENT

DIVINES, || PHILOSOPHERS,
PATRIOTS,

POETS,
STATESMEN,

AND
WARRIORS,

ARTISTS,

- OF
GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND,

FROM
THE ACCESSION OF HENRY VIII. TO THE PRESENT TIME.

FROM

A New Edition,
RE-ARRANGED AND ENRICHED WITH SEVERAL
ADDITIONAL LIVES,

. BY THE
REV. FRANCIS WRANGHAM, M.A. F.R.S.

OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.

IN SIX VOLUMES.

VOL. VI.

Triumph, my Britain! Thou hast those to show,
To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe.. (Jonson.)
Tos ZusageTAI;

(Æsch. ‘E91. Eri On6. 431.)

LONDON:
PRINTED FOR J. MAWMAN, LUDGATE STREET; AND FOR

BALDWIN, CRADOCK, AND JOY, PATERNOSTER ROW.

CONTENTS

OR THE

SIXTH VOLUME.

Born Died Page

LXXXV. Sir Robert Walpole.(1676—1745) 1

LXXXVI. James Thomson .. (1700—1748) 30

LXXXVII. Henry St. John, Vis-

count Bolingbroke(1678–1751) 50

LXXXVIII. George Berkeley .. (1684–1753) 70

LXXXIX. Major General James'

Wolfe......... (1726–1759) 104

XC. Benjamin Hoadly. (1676—1761) 115

XCI. Samuel Richardson.(1689–1761) 129

XCII. Edward Young... (1681—1765) 144

XCIII. John Jortin...... (1698—1770) 165

XCIV. Thomas Gray.....(1716—1771) 185

XCV. Philip Dormer

Stanhope, Earl

of Chesterfield. . (1694–1773) 206

XCVI. Oliver Goldsmith..(1729—1774) 232

XCVII. William Pitt, Earl

of Chatham.... (1708–1778) 251

XCVIII. Samuel Johnson .. (1709—1784) 301

XCIX. Sir William Jones. . (1746—1794) 363

C. Viscount Nelson .. (1758–1805) 425

Index...................... 489