Secker, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1758 to 1768.
Seigneur Oreste and Madame Andromaque. See Racine’s Andromaque.
Settle, Elkanah. See Flecknoe and Settle.
Sidney, Algernon, condemned and executed on scanty and illegal evidence on a charge of implication in the Rye House Plot of 1683.
Somers, President of the Council (1708-10) a great Whig leader (he had defended the Seven Bishops) and patron of literature (1650-1716).
Spinola, Spanish marquis and general who served his country with all his genius and fortune for naught (1571-1630).
Sporus, a favourite of Nero. Owing to his resemblance to that emperor’s wife he was, after her death, dressed as a woman, and went through a marriage ceremony with Nero.
Stafford, Lord, executed in 1680, on a false charge of complicity in Oates’s Popish Plot.
Stanley, Mr., fourth Earl of Derby, the “Rupert of Debate.”
Stella, Esther Johnson, the daughter of one of Lady Giffard’s friends.