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.
William O'Carroll
William O'Carroll
Alias:
Mr. Carroll
Biography:
Sometime secretary to the British envoy at Dresden, Philip Stanhope in the 1760s, and an Irish officer of the Marines.1
Life with Boswell:
On October 10, 1764 Boswell described O'Carroll in his journal as “an obliging sort of man, but very formal. He was just Mr. Carron at Utrecht in regimentals.”
Note 1: Only source used for this article is Boswell on the Grand Tour I, 1763-1764.
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