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BOSWELL, JAMES, second surviving son of James Boswell, Auchinleck, Ayrshire, advocate, the biographer of Dr Johnson, and Margaret, dau. of David Montgomerie, Lainshaw, Ayrshire; b. 15 Sep 1778; adm. 1790; in sixth form list 1796; Brasenose Coll. Oxford, matr. 14 Jan 1797; BA 1801; MA 1806; Vinerian Scholar 1803, Vinerian Fellow 1812; adm. Inner Temple 21 Jan 1799, called to bar 24 May 1805; a Commissioner of Bankrupts (occurs in annual lists 1819 to death); one of the earliest members of the Roxburghe Club; completed the second edition of Malone’s Shakespeare; edited the third variorum edition of Shakespeare in 21 vols., 1821; d. unm. 24 Feb 1822. DNB.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.