Samuel Johnson (pamphleteer)
- Samuel Johnson (pamphleteer)
Samuel Johnson (1649 - 1703), political writer, sometimes called "the Whig" to distinguish him from the later acclaimed author and lexicographer of the same name. Of humble extraction, he was educated at St. Paul's School and Cambridge, and took orders. He attacked James II in "Julian the Apostate" (1682), and was imprisoned. He continued, however, his attacks on the Government by pamphlets, and did much to influence the public mind in favour of the "Glorious Revolution" of 1688. Dryden gave him a place in "Absalom and Achitophel" as "Benjochanan." After the Revolution he received a pension, but considered himself insufficiently rewarded by a Deanery, which he declined. He was married for many years, suffered from many illnesses.
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