602 MEN OF LEARNING AND GENIUS. 



1780 Sir William Blackstone, judge of the court of common pleas, London ; Com- 

 mentaries on the Laws of England, 



1780 Dr. John Fothergili, Yorkshire; philosophy and medicine. 



James Harris ; Hermes, Philological Inquiries, Philosophical Arrange- 

 ments. 



1782 Thomas Newton, bishop of Bristol, Lichfield - y Discourses on the Prophecies, 



and other works. 

 Sir John Pringle, Bart. Roxburgshire ; Diseases of the army. 

 Henr} Home, Lord Kaimes, Scotland ; Elements of Criticism, Sketches of 



the History of Man. 



1783 Dr. William Hunter, Lanerkshire ; anatomy. 



Dr. Benjamin Kennicoli, Devonshire; Hebrew Bible, Dissertations, &c 



1784 Dr. Sh iiuel Johnson, Lichfield; English Dictionary, biography, essays, 



poetry ; died Dec. 13, aged 71. 



1785 William Whitehead, poet-laureat; poems and plays. 



Rev. Richard Burn, LED. author of the Justice of Peace, Ecclesiastical Law, 



&c. ; died Nov. 20. 

 Richard Glover, esq Leonidas, Medea, &c. died Nov. 25. 



1786 Jonas Hamvay, esq. travels, miscellanies ; died Sept. 5, aged 74* 



1787 Dr. Robert Lovvtb, bishop of London ; criticism, divinity, grammar ; died 



Nov. 3- 

 Soame Jenyns, esq Internal Evidence of the Christian Religion, and other 

 pieces; died Dec. 18. 



1788 James Stuart, esq. celebrated by the name of " Athenian Stuart," died 



Feb. 1. 

 Thomas Gainsborough, esq. the celebrated painter ; died Aug. 2. 

 Thomas Sheridan, esq. English Dictionary, works on education, elocution, 



&c ; died Aug. 14. 



1789 William Julius Mickle, esq. Cumberland ; translator of the Lusiad ; died 



Oct. 15. * 



1790 Dr. William Cullen, Scotland; Practice of Physic, Materia Medica, &c. ; died 



Feb. 5. 



Benjamin Franklin, esq. Boston, New England; Electricity, Natural Philo- 

 sophy, miscellanies ; died April 1 7. 



Dr. Adam Smith, Scotland; Moral Sentiments, Inquiry into the Wealth of 

 Nations ; died April 17- 



John Howard, esq. Middlesex ; Account of Prisons and Lazarettoes, &c 



Rev. Thomas Warton, B D. poet-laureat ; History of English Poetry, Poems; 

 died April 21. 



1791 Rev. Dr. Richard Price, Glamorganshire; on Morals, Providence, Civil 



Liberty, Annuities, Reversionary Payments, Sermons, &c ; died Feb. 19, 

 aged 68. 

 Dr. Thomas Blacklock, Annandale; Poems, Consolations from Natural and 

 Revealed Religion ; died Jujy, aged 70. ' 



1792 Sir Joshua Reynolds, Devonshire; President of the Royal Academy of Paint- 



ing ; Discourses on Painting delivered before the Academy ; died Feb. 

 19, aged 68. 



1793 Rev. Dr. William Robertson, Principal of the University of Edinburgh, and 



historiographer to his majesty for Scotland; History of Scotland, of the 

 Reign of Charles V, History of America, and Historical Disquisition con- 

 cerning India.; died June 11, aged 72. 



1794 Edward Gibbon, esq. Surry ; History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman 



Empire; died Jan. 16. 



1795 Sh William Jones, one of the judges of India, and president of the Asiatic 



Society ; several lasv tracts, translation of Isxus, and of the Moallakat, 

 or seven Arabian poems, and many valuable papers in the Asiatic Re- 

 searches 



1796 Robert Burns, poems chiefly Scottish, died July 21. 

 Thomas Reid, esq. ; philosophy of the mind, died Oct. 7. 



1797 Edmund Burke, esq. Sublime and Beautiful, Tracts on the French Revolu- 



tion. 



1799 W. Melmoth ; Translations of Pliny's and Cicero's Letters, FitzosborneV 



Letters, Sic. 

 Lord Monboddo ; Origin and Progress of Language. 



1800 Rev. Dr. Joseph Warton; Poetry, Miscellaneous Literature. 



