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Edward Colquitt

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According to notes in Boswell on the Grand Tour I, 1763-1764 "a raffish young priest of the Church of England".

Life with James Boswell

Boswell knew him from Edinburgh ca. 1760, where they were fellow members (and founders) of The Soaping Club. Boswell first mentions him in his journal of August 21, 1764 in Brunswick, when he recollected one of Colquitt's stories.

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Edward Colquitt is mentioned in:

  • Boswell on the Grand Tour: Germany and Switzerland 1763-1764

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