James Boswell - Edinburgh, Scotland
N 55° 56.861 W 003° 11.240
30U E 488300 N 6200272
A plaque placed in honor of James Boswell is located at the University of Edinburgh in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Waymark Code: WMMC9T
Location: Southern Scotland, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 08/30/2014
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The plaque reads:
The University
of Edinburgh
In Honour of
James Boswell
1740-1795
Lawyer and diarist,
biographer of Dr Samuel Johnson,
alumnus of the University.
The following additional information about James Boswell is from Wikipedia:
James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck (29 October 1740 – 19 May 1795), was a Scottish lawyer, diarist, and author born in Edinburgh. He is best known for the biography he wrote of one of his contemporaries, the English literary figure Samuel Johnson, which the modern Johnsonian critic Harold Bloom has claimed is the greatest biography written in the English language.
Boswell's surname has passed into the English language as a term (Boswell, Boswellian, Boswellism) for a constant companion and observer, especially one who records those observations in print. In A Scandal in Bohemia, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's character Sherlock Holmes affectionately says of Dr. Watson, who narrates the tales, "I am lost without my Boswell."