For most of his adult life Boswell was better known for his "Account of Corsica", which lead to the sobriquet Corsica Boswell, than for his friendship with Dr. Johnson.
Thomas David Boswell
Thomas David Boswell
Born 1748Died 1826
Biography:
Son of Alexander Boswell and Euphemia Erskine. James Boswell's youngest brother. Married (1784) to Anne Catherine Green. David went to Spain in the 1760s to become a merchant at Valencia, and at that time changed his name to Thomas (David) Boswell. Sometime inspector in the navy pay office.
Life with 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.
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