On his Grand Tour of Europe in 1764-1765, Boswell visited and befriended the famous philosophers Jean-Jacques Rosseau and François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire), and back in Edinburgh he was a personal friend of David Hume.
John Maule - Baron Maule of Inverkeilor
John Maule
Born 1706Died Jul 02, 1781
Alias:
Baron Maule of Inverkeilor
Biography:
Son of Henry Maule (1659-1734) of Kelly, and Anne Lindsay Crawfurd (d. 1729). Member of Parliament for Aberdeen Burghs (1739-1748). Appointed Baron of the Exchequer for Scotland in May, 1748. Appointed Trustee for encouraging fisheries and manufactures in Scotland in July, 1749. He died unmarried in 1781.
Baron Maule's Close in Edinburgh is named after him.
Life with Boswell:
Boswell, in journal notes published in Boswell on the Grand Tour I, 1763-1764, writes about himself "[being] a kind of Baron Maule" (July 10, 1764) and an intention of his to "live like Baron Maule". (July 28, 1764).
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