Sir Brooke Boothby as satirist.

IN Notes and Queries of August 1955 (cc. 351-2) David Bonnell Green wrote that Sir Brooke Boothby (1744-1824) was also a translator from the Italian. Besides translating from the Italian, Greek, Latin, French, and German, Sir Brooke Boothby of Ashbourne Hall in Derbyshire was also a poet and the author of several books on English politics. He was an intimate friend of Rousseau's, and knew such diverse people as Voltaire, Benjamin Constant, the French painter Jacques-Louis David, Goethe, August-Wilhelm Schlegel, Reynolds, Fuseli, Wright of Derby, Sir Thomas Banks, Dr Johnson, Dr Taylor, Anna Seward, Erasmus Darwin, Sir Walter Scott, Maria Edgeworth, Sir Joseph Banks, Nelson, Lady Hamilton, and Henry Crabb Robinson. Sir Brooke was also on friendly terms with several English politicians and statesmen including Charles James Fox, the third Duke of Portland, the second Earl of Liverpool, the first …