| AdminHistory | Born 1709; educated at the grammar school in Salisbury; entered Wadham College Oxford as a gentleman-commoner; matriculated, 1726; afterwards read law at Lincoln's Inn without intending to practise; on his father's death, became independent, and settled in the family house in Salisbury Close; studied the classics; an active magistrate for the county, living at Salisbury and his house at Durnford in the neighbourhood; encouraged concerts and the annual musical festival at Salisbury; adapted words to selections from Italian and German composers made in two volumes by Joseph Corfe, the Salisbury organist; served in the House of Commons as member for Christchurch, 1761-1780; a follower of George Grenville; became a lord of the Admiralty and a lord of the Treasury, 1763; retired with Grenville, 1765; made secretary and comptroller to the queen, 1774; held no other office; a scholar and author, and an adherent of Aristotelian philosophy; died, 1780; buried in the north aisle of Salisbury Cathedral. Publications: three treatises, firstly on 'Art', secondly on 'Music, Painting, and Poetry', and thirdly on 'Happiness' (1744); 'Hermes, or a Philosophical Inquiry concerning Universal Grammar' (1751; translated into French, 1796); 'Philosophical Arrangements' (1775); 'Philological Inquiries' (1781); added some notes to Sarah Fielding's translation of Xenophon; works, with an account of the author, collected by his son, Lord Malmesbury (1801); 'On Rise and Progress of Criticism, from Papers by J H' (1752) and 'Spring: a Pastoral', represented at Drury Lane in 1762, also attributed to him. |
| CustodialHistory | Part of the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), linguistic psychologist, founder of the Orthological Institute and originator of the language system Basic English, whose interests in language systems are reflected in the subject matter of his collection, which comprised individual manuscripts and manuscript collections dating from the 14th to the 20th century. |