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Boswell, James, 1740-1795

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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79018795

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http://id.loc.gov/rwo/agents/n79018795

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https://isni.org/isni/0000000121363095

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Boswell, James, 1740-1795
Boswell, James, 1740-1795
James Boswell Label from public data source Wikidata
http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500274533

Sources

found: Britannica Micro., 1991(born Oct. 29th 1740, died May 19th 1795)

found: The legal papers of James Boswell, 2013- :v. 1, p. xxxix (James Boswell; author of the Journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1785); and the Life of Samuel Johnson (1791); also renowned as a great diarist and for his exploits in London; advocate at the Scottish Bar while residing in Edinburgh from 1766 to 1786; moved to London in 1786)

found: Wikipedia, 20 March 2020(James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck was a Scottish biographer, diarist, and lawyer; born on 29 October 1740, Edinburgh, Scotland; died on 19 May 1795 (aged 54), London, England; he is best known for his biography of his friend and older contemporary, the English writer Samuel Johnson)

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PR3325

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1979-03-14: new
2025-08-05: revised

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