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John Charles

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Death: n/a

Reverend at the Church-of-England chapel in Amsterdam around 1764.

Probably the John Charles, D.D. who is listed as chaplain of the Church of England in Amsterdam in 1741.1 

Life with James Boswell

Boswell went to his sermon on May 26, 1764, describing the sermon as good and Charles as "a very pretty man".

Notes

Note 1: Listed in the Rev. William Steven's "The History of the Scottish Church, Rotterdam",  p. 282 (find it at AbeBooks)


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  • Boswell in Holland 1763-1764

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From 1777 to 1783 James Boswell was a columnist for the London Magazine, writing a total of seventy essays under the pseudonym the Hypochondriack.

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