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David Longueville
near Auchinleck
Died 1776  

Born in Dickstoun near Auchinleck. According to Alexander Boswell "a very worthy man who is by marriages in opulent circumstances".1 Minister of the English church in Amsterdam from 1740 until his death in 1776. Before that, he had been preaching in a church in Exeter.2

Alexander Boswell had recommended that James visited Longueville in Amsterdam at the beginning of his stay in Holland. However, it wasn't until the end of his stay, on May 25, that he waited on Longueville in Amsterdam, describing him afterwards as "a heavy, sulky dog, but born near Auchinleck".

  • 1In a letter to James, printed in
  • 2According to Van den Berg and Nuttall's "Phillip Doddrige (1702-1751) and the Netherlands", p. 20 (available via
Boswell in Holland 1763-64

Unless otherwise noted, the source for a dated quotation of Boswell's is generally the corresponding volume of the Yale Trade Editions of Boswell's journals.