Biography

Captain O'Grady. (-)

Unindentified.

According to Boswell "an Irish officer in the Saxon service, a good, honest, light-headed fellow. He keeps a girl at Dessau, and is very much there."

Life with James Boswell:

Boswell met O'Grady at Dessau on September 25, 1764, noting that

"[a]t supper this night he talked a vast deal of bawdy concerning a Mademoiselle Stenix, who sat near me. I looked grave, and seemed to give no attention to his discourse, by way of reproving him. At last he said that "she would go like a pair of lobster's claws". This ludicrous idea struck me so much that I burst out into a fit of laughter, and Master O'Grady was heartily pleased."

Boswell met O'Grady a few days after having left Dessau, on October 4, 1764 in Leipzig, where O'Grady was to sell some [horses] of his own having apparently freighted a ship from Ireland. On that same day Boswell noted O'Grady's great facility for speaking and swearing in German. They dined together, with Neitschütz, on October 5.

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