Life
?1700-1772; hon. LLD Aberdeen, 1765; FSA, 1767; wrote on travels and history
and trans. a great number of books, mostly from French, including Voltaire,
Rousseau, and Montesquieu. RR ODNB
Richard Ryan, Biographia Hibernica: Irish Worthies, Vol.II [of 2] (London & Dublin 1821) |
| A miscellaneous writer, compiler, and translator, was a native of Ireland, but few particulars of his life are known. He appears to have resided the greater part of his life in London, and to have been employed by the booksellers. In 1765, he had the degree of LL.D. conferred upon him by the university of Aberdeen. In 1766, he travelled the Continent to collect materials for his “History of Vandalia,” which was published in three vols. 4to, in 1776. He also translated Burlamaqni’s “Principles of Politic Law,” the Abbé Condillac’s “Essay on Human Knowledge”, and Henault’s “Chronological Abridgment of the History of France”. He died at his apartments in Gray146’s-inn-lane, April 87, 1778, leaving behind him the character of a man of learning and considerable industry. (p.456). |
Stanley Ayling, Edmund Burke (1988), Montesquieu translated into English by Thomas Nugent, father of Christopher Nugent, the Irish Catholic doctor at Bath, who treated Burke (‘Restored his life and taught him how to live’), and whose daughter Jane he married in 1757. [12-3] Dr Nugent later moved his practice to London, close to the Burke’s at Wimpole St. [17]. Dr Nugent was also a founding member of the Club meeting weekly at the Turk’s Head, Soho, with Johnson, etc., in 1764 [27]
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