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The Thrale's had a taste for literary guests and literary guests had, on their part, a taste for her good dinners. James Boswell described "the witty and the eminent who assembled in numerous companies". Guests included the likes of:
* Samuel Johnson [4];
* Oliver Goldsmith [5];
* James Boswell [6];
* Arthur Murphy [7] 1727-18 June 1805 lawyer, dramatist and Henry Thrale’s oldest and dearest friend
* Sir Joshua Reynolds [8] painter and President of Royal Academy of Art [9] 1723-1792,
* Jeremiah (Joseph) Crutchley [10] 1745 - 28 December 1805 Henry Thrale’s godson,
* William Seward 1747-1799 anecdotist and son of a wealthy brewer of the firm Calvert and Seward,
* John Cator [11] died 21 February 1806 timber merchant of London and Beckenham,
* Bennet Langton [12] a scholar of Greek and close friend of Samuel Johnson 1737-1801,
* Topham Beauclerk [13] 2nd husband of Lady Diana Spencer [14] and close friend of Samuel Johnson 1739-1831,
* Sir John Hawkins [15] author 1719-1789,
* Edmund Burke [16] statesman, author, orator, political theorist, and philosopher 1729-1797,
* Thomas Percy [17] Bishop of Dromore, editor of Tatler, Guardian and Spectator, 1729-1811
* Dr. Christopher Nugent father-in law of Edmund Burke died 1775,
* Sir Robert Chambers [18] professor of law at Oxford and Judge 1737-1803,
* Samuel Dyer 1725-1772 writer and translator,
* James Woodhouse a shoemaker 1735-1820,
* Giuseppe Marc’ Antonio Baretti [19] 1719 - 5 May 1789 Queeney’s Italian tutor,
* Charles Burney [20] 1726-1814 musician, writer and Queeney’s [21] music tutor,
* Frances (Fanny) Burney [22] 1752-1840 (author of Evelina [23]),
* David Garrick [24] actor 1717-1779,
* William Henry Lyttelton Westcote later 1st Baron Lyttleton of Frankley [25] 1724-1808,
* Baronet William Weller Pepys 1740-1825 created a Baronet in 1801,
* James Harris [26], philosopher grammarian and author of Hermes,
* Sir Philip Jennings Clerke, Baronet of Duddlestone Hall 1722-1788 MP for Totnes,
* Baronet Sir Richard Jebb 1729-1787,
* James Wallace, Solicitor and Attorney-General,
* Elizabeth Montagu [27]1720-1800 ’Blue Stocking’ authoress, social reformer, patron of the arts, hostess, literary critic, and writer.
Links
[1] http://www.thrale.com/user/login?destination=comment/reply/333%23comment-form
[2] http://www.thrale.com/user/register?destination=comment/reply/333%23comment-form
[3] http://www.thrale.com/sites/default/files/books/1772-00-00_samuel_johnson_by_joshua_reynolds.png
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Johnson
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Goldsmith
[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Boswell
[7] http://www.thrale.com/arthur_murphy
[8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Joshua_Reynolds
[9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Academy_of_Arts
[10] http://www.thrale.com/jeremiah_joseph_crutchley
[11] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cator
[12] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bennet_Langton
[13] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topham_Beauclerk
[14] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_Beauclerk
[15] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hawkins_(author)
[16] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Burke
[17] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Percy
[18] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Chambers_(judge)
[19] http://www.thrale.com/image/giuseppe_marcantonio_baretti_1773_sir_joshua_reynolds
[20] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Burney
[21] http://www.thrale.com/hester_maria_thrale
[22] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Burney
[23] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelina
[24] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Garrick
[25] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lyttelton,_1st_Baron_Lyttelton
[26] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Harris_(Grammarian)
[27] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Montagu