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The ill-fated mountaineer George Mallory's only book was "Boswell the Biographer"?

Biographies

James Boswell mentioned thousands of people in his extensive journals and other writings. Read about an ever increasing number of those people, and about their relationship with Boswell, in our biographies section.

Literature

In our literature section you can read about the numerous books published by Boswell in his own lifetime, and about more than 40 other books about or related to Boswell published since his death in 1795.

Henning Adam von Bassewitz

Alias:

Monsieur de Bassewitz

Biography:

Baron and sometime Lord Chamberlain to Karl I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg.1

Almost certainly a close relation of Lütke Cuno Wolfradt von Bassewitz (1728-1796), Hauptmann of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, son of Ludolph Friedrich von Bassewitz and Magdalene Sybille.