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 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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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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King of the Gypsies (section James Boswell)
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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Life of Samuel Johnson (redirect from Boswell's Life of Johnson)
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1791) by James Boswell is a biography of English writer and lawyer Samuel Johnson. The work was from the beginning...
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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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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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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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Ayton, Scottish Borders (section James Boswell)
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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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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Christopher Lynn Boswell (born March 16, 1991) is an American professional football placekicker for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League...
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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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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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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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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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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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The James G. Boswell Foundation is the charitable foundation established in 1947 by James Griffin Boswell (May 13, 1882–1952), founder of the J. G. Boswell...
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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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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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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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Boswell for the Defence is a 1989 Australian play by Patrick Edgeworth about James Boswell and his defence of Mary Bryant. The title role was originally...
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acting, with parts ranging from James Boswell (to Robbie Coltrane's Samuel Johnson) in the UK TV comedy drama Boswell and Johnson's Tour of the Western...
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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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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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encounters with them, providing published accounts of the Grand Tour. James Boswell in the 18th century courted noble ladies and recorded his progress with...
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Greek geographer of the 2nd century CE. In the early modern period, James Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1786) helped shape travel memoir...
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on Auchinleck House, past home of the lawyer, diarist and biographer James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck. Auchinleck is in the heart of the ancient...
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