James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck and 1st Baronet (October 29, 1740 - May 19, 1795) was a lawyer, diarist, and author born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was the eldest son of a judge, Alexander Boswell, 8th Laird of Auchinleck and his wife Euphemia Erskine, Lady Auchinleck. Boswell's mother was a strict Calvinist, and he felt that his father was cold to him. The heir to the estate of Auchinleck in Ayrshire, which he inherited on the death of his father, … Wikipedia
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Through the prism of the relationship between Johnson and Boswell, we see the wider issues and arguments as Britain took the first steps towards abolition of the transatlantic slave trade. www.untoldlondon.org.uk/archives/TRA38765.html
Title: Young Boswell; chapters on James Boswell, the biographer, based largely on new material, by Chauncey Brewster Tinker. www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=genpub;idno=ACA29...
