James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck (1740-1795), 1880 engraving from a portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds

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James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck (1740-1795), an 18th century Scottish biographer and diarist, best known for his biography of Samuel Johnson. An 1880 engraving from a portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds

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