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    James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck (/ˈbɒzwɛl, -wəl/; 29 October 1740 (N.S.) – 19 May 1795), was a Scottish biographer, diarist, and lawyer, born in...
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  • James Boswell (1740–1795) was a Scottish lawyer, diarist, and author James Boswell may also refer to: James Boswell (1778–1822), or James Boswell the...
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  • James Edward Buchanan Boswell (9 June 1906 – 15 April 1971) was a New Zealand-born British painter, draughtsman and socialist. James Boswell was born in...
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  • James Griffin Boswell (May 13, 1882 - September 11, 1952), was the founder of the J. G. Boswell Company, known today as the world's largest privately...
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  • claiming the title King of the Gypsies come from the Boswell family. Was the son of Francis Boswell. "Alias king of the Gypsies", from the St Margaret's...
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    Samuel Johnson (category James Boswell)
    The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia. In 1763 he befriended James Boswell, with whom he travelled to Scotland, as Johnson described in A Journey...
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    and songwriter. The son of Samuel Johnson's friend and biographer James Boswell of Auchinleck, he used the funds from his inheritance to pay for a seat...
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    Oglethorpe was prominent in literary circles, becoming close to James Boswell and Samuel Johnson. James Oglethorpe's family history dates back to William the Conqueror...
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    ISBN 0-85177-919-0. Ingram, Allan; Rawson, Claude; Waingrow, Marshall; Boswell, James (1998). "James Boswell's 'Life of Johnson': An Edition of the Original Manuscript...
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    Johnson's biographer James Boswell. He was the second surviving son of Mary (born Montgomerie) and James Boswell. Boswell received his early education...
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    The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1791) by James Boswell is a biography of English writer Samuel Johnson. The work was from the beginning a critical...
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    and biographer James Boswell, and grandfather of songwriter Sir Alexander Boswell. Alexander Boswell was the eldest son of James Boswell (ca. 1672–1749)...
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    scurvy. Nathaniel Dance-Holland painted his portrait; he dined with James Boswell; he was described in the House of Lords as "the first navigator in Europe"...
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  • Johnson was accompanied by his thirty-two-year-old friend of many years James Boswell, who was also keeping a record of the trip, published in 1785 as A Journal...
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    Auchinleck House (category Clan Boswell)
    Sir John Auchinleck to a Thomas Boswell, the estate and the title were granted to Boswell by King James IV. Boswell assumed the title of laird from that...
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    time in reading and writing and meeting visitors such as James Boswell (December 1764). (Boswell recorded his private discussions with Rousseau, in both...
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    may have asserted what we would now label a queer identity". In 1773, James Boswell was on tour in Scotland with the stout and serious-minded essayist and...
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  • an English cleric and essayist, now remembered as a correspondent of James Boswell. William Johnson Temple was the son of William Temple of Allerdean,...
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  • Look up Boswell in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Boswell may refer to: Boswell, British Columbia, a rural community Boswell, British Columbia (Central...
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    Boswell, James (1970). Weis, Charles McC.; Pottle, Frederick A. (eds.). Boswell in Extremes, 1776–1778. Yale editions of the private papers of James Boswell...
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    Barber was also an important source for James Boswell concerning Johnson's life in the years before Boswell himself knew Johnson. Barber was born a slave...
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    of Ayton Castle and sold it in 2015. The Scottish diarist and author James Boswell, biographer of Samuel Johnson passed through Ayton on his journey to...
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    manuscript of his great pastoral poem, which she afterwards gave to James Boswell, and it was for many years preserved in the library at Auchinleck House...
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    the sight of his left eye, which forced him into retirement. In 1791 James Boswell dedicated his Life of Samuel Johnson to Reynolds. Reynolds agreed with...
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    of Buckingham and Normanby, and thirty years later to James Boswell.[failed verification] James remained well-treated in Rome until his death. He was...
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    (Shakespearean commentator), James Boswell (diarist, author), Charles James Fox (M.P.), George Fordyce (physician/chemist), James Caulfeild, 1st Earl of Charlemont...
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    Margaret Boswell born Margaret Montgomerie (1738 – 4 June 1789) was the wife and cousin of the diarist James Boswell. She was born in about 1738 at Lainshaw...
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    Roderick Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters Mr. D / Dionysus The Fifth Estate James Boswell The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Caesar Flickerman Some Velvet Morning...
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    given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people." His biographer, James Boswell, noted that Lord Elibank was said by Sir Walter Scott to have retorted...
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    enter London society, as a result of which she met Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, Bishop Thomas Percy, Oliver Goldsmith, and other literary figures,...
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