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 Monetesquieu. ODNB.
Commentary
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
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