[42d] An Irish doctor, with whom Swift invested money.
[43a] Enoch Sterne, Collector of Wicklow and Clerk to the House of Lords in Ireland.
[43b] Claret.
[43c] Colonel Ambrose Edgworth, a famous dandy, who is supposed to have been referred to by Steele in No. 246 of the Tatler. Edgworth was the son of Sir John Edgworth, who was made Colonel of a Regiment of Foot in 1689 (Dalton, iii, 59). Ambrose Edgworth was a Captain in the same regiment, but father and son were shortly afterwards turned out of the regiment for dishonest conduct in connection with the soldiers’ clothing. Ambrose was, however, reappointed a Captain in General Eric’s Regiment of Foot in 1691. He served in Spain as Major in Brigadier Gorge’s regiment; was taken prisoner in 1706; and was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of Colonel Thomas Allen’s Regiment of Foot in 1707.
[43d] This volume of Miscellanies in Prose and Verse was published by Morphew in 1711.
[43e] Dr. Thomas Lindsay, afterwards Bishop of Raphoe.
[44a] The first mention of the Vanhomrighs in the Journal. Swift had made their acquaintance when he was in London in 1708.
[44b] Lady Elizabeth and Lady Mary (see p. [40] and below).
[44c] John, third Lord Ashburnham, and afterwards Earl of Ashburnham (1687–1737), married, on Oct. 21, 1710, Lady Mary Butler, younger daughter of the Duke of Ormond. She died on Jan. 2, 1712–3, in her twenty-third year. She was Swift’s “greatest favourite,” and he was much moved at her death.
[45a] Edward Wortley Montagu, grandson of the first Earl of Sandwich, and M.P. for Huntingdon. He was a great friend of Addison’s, and the second volume of the Tatler was dedicated to him. In 1712 he married the famous Lady Mary Pierrepont, eldest daughter of the Duke of Kingston, and under George I. he became Ambassador Extraordinary to the Porte. He died in 1761, aged eighty.