Boswell, James the Younger

James the Younger Boswell
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Name	Boswell, James the Younger Gender: M
born on	15 September 1778 at 14:10 (= 2:10 PM )
Place	Edinburgh, Scotland, 55n57, 3w13
Timezone	LMT m3w13 (is local mean time)
Data source	Quoted BC/BR Rodden Rating AA Collector: Scholfield
Astrology data	22°46' 16°25 Asc. 19°07'

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Biography

British barrister-at-law and the second surviving son of Samuel Johnson's biographer James Boswell.

Entered at Brasenose College, Oxford, in 1797, he took his B.A. degree in 1801, proceeding M.A. in 1806, and was elected a fellow on the Vinerian foundation. While a student at Brasenose he contributed notes signed "J. B. O." to the third edition of his father's Life of Samuel Johnson, and afterwards carefully revised and corrected the text for the sixth edition (see Malone's Prefaces).

Called to the bar of the Inner Temple, 24 May 1805, he was afterwards appointed a commissioner of bankrupts.

He was from an early age close to his father's friend Edmond Malone, whom he assisted in collecting and arranging the materials for a second edition of his Shakespeare, and was requested by him in his last illness to complete it, a task which he duly performed. He contributed to The Gentleman's Magazine for June 1813 a memoir of Malone, which in 1814 he reprinted for private circulation.

Boswell died suddenly at his chambers in the Temple, London, unmarried, on 24 February 1822, aged 43.

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Relationships

• child->parent relationship with Boswell, James (born 18 October 1740 Jul.Cal. (29 Oct 1740 greg.))

• sibling relationship with Boswell, Alexander (born 9 October 1775)

Events

• Death, Cause unspecified 24 February 1822 (Age 43)
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Source Notes

Sy Scholfield cites father's journal quoted in Boswell's Edinburgh Journals 1767-1786 edited by ‎Hugh M. Milne (Birlinn, 2001): "TUESDAY 15 SEPTEMBER [1778] ... I may continue my journal from this day on which my son James was born ... I had rested ill all night ... I rose beteen nine and ten. She [my wife] was in great distress all the forenoon.... About ten minutes after two she was safely delivered of a fine, big, stout boy..."

Place of birth from Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "Boswell, James (1778-1822), barrister and literary scholar, was born on 15 September 1778 at James's Court, Edinburgh" [1]/

Categories

• Traits : Mind : Education extensive (BA, MA)

• Family : Childhood : Family noted

• Family : Relationship : Married late/never (Never)

• Family : Parenting : Kids none

• Vocation : Law : Attorney (Barrister-at-law)

• Vocation : Writers : Biographer

• Vocation : Writers : Publisher/ Editor