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Thomas David Boswell

Biography


Birth: 1748
Death: 1826

Son of Alexander Boswell and Euphemia Erskine. James Boswell's youngest brother. Married (1784) to Anne Catherine Green. When David went to Spain to become a merchant at Valencia, he changed his name to Thomas David Boswell.

Life with James Boswell

David Boswell enters his older brother's journals when he arrived in Edinburgh with their mother on November 10, 1762. The two brothers were rather close, often of the same mind and they corresponded often during the long periods of physical absence from each other.

Mentioned in

Thomas David Boswell is mentioned in:

  • Journal of my Jaunt, Harvest 1762

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During his stay in Berlin in 1764, Boswell lived in the house of Karl David Kircheisen, the president of the Berlin city council.

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