Mr. Taylor, a Birmingham manufacturer.

(Vol. i, p. 86.)

’John Taylor, Esq. may justly be deemed the Shakspear or Newton of Birmingham.  He rose from minute beginnings to shine in the commercial hemisphere, as they in the poetical or philosophical.  To this uncommon genius we owe the gilt button, the japanned and gilt snuff-box, with the numerous race of enamels; also the painted snuff-box. ...  He died in 1775 at the age of 64, after acquiring a fortune of L200,000.  His son was a considerable sufferer at the time of the riots in 1791.’ —­A Brief History of Birmingham, 1797, p. 9.

Olivia Lloyd.

(Vol. i, p. 92.)

I am, no doubt, right in identifying Olivia Lloyd, the young quaker, with whom Johnson was much enamoured when at Stourbridge School, with Olive Lloyd, the daughter of the first Sampson Lloyd, of Birmingham, and aunt of the Sampson Lloyd with whom he had an altercation (ante, ii. 458 and post, p. liii).  ’A fine likeness of her is preserved by Thomas Lloyd, The Priory, Warwick,’ as I learn from an interesting little work called Farm and its Inhabitants, with some Account of the Lloyds of Dolobran, by Rachel J. Lowe.  Privately printed, 1883, p. 24.  Her elder brother married a Miss Careless; ib. p. 23.  Johnson’s ‘first love,’ Hector’s sister, married a Mr. Careless (ante, ii. 459).

Henry Porter, of Edgbaston.

(Vol. i, p. 94, n. 3.)

In St. Mary’s Church, Warwick, is a monument to—­

   ’Anna Norton, Henrici Porter
               Filia
   Nuper de Edgberston in Com.  Warw.  Generosi;
   Vidua Thomae Norton.... 
   Haec annis et pietate matura vitam deposuit. 
    Maii 14, 1698.’

A Brief Description of the Collegiate Church of St. Mary in Warwick, published by Grafton and Reddell, Birmingham; no date.

Mrs. Williams’s account of Mrs. Johnson and her sons by her former marriage. (Vol. i, p. 95.)

The following note by Malone I failed to quote in the right place.  It is copied from a paper, written by Lady Knight.

’Mrs. Williams’s account of Mrs. Johnson was, that she had a good understanding and great sensibility, but inclined to be satirical.  Her first husband died insolvent [this is a mistake, see ante, i. 95, n. 3]; her sons were much disgusted with her for her second marriage; ... however, she always retained her affection for them.  While they [Mr. and Mrs. Johnson] resided in Gough Square, her son, the officer, knocked at the door, and asked the maid if her mistress was at home.  She answered, “Yes, Sir, but she is sick in bed.”  “Oh,” says he, “if it’s so, tell her that her son Jervis called to know how she did;” and was going away.  The maid begged she might run up to tell her mistress, and, without attending his answer, left him.  Mrs. Johnson, enraptured to hear her son was below, desired the maid to tell him she longed