John Paradise (1743–1795) was an Anglo-Greek linguist, known as a friend of Samuel Johnson and Fellow of the Royal Society.
He was born at Thessalonica in April 1743, the son of Peter Paradise (died 1 February 1779), who was the English consul there, and of a half-Greek half-English mother.
[1] Paradise was a member of the Greek Orthodox Church, and apparently not a convert but born into it.
He knew ancient and modern Greek, Latin, Turkish, French, Italian, and English.
[2] He left money to buy mourning rings to nine: Isaac Hawkins Browne, Nathaniel Burwell, Bennet Langton, Samuel Horsley, Thomas Jefferson, Richard Warburton Lytton, Frederick North, William Windham, and Semyon Romanovich Woronzow.