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He was the eldest son of a judge, Alexander Boswell, Lord Auchinleck, and his wife Euphemia Erskine. As the eldest son, he was heir to his family's estate of Auchinleck in Ayrshire. Boswell's mother was a strict Calvinist, and he felt that his father was cold to him. As a child, he was delicate.
He was 32 then—reasonably content and cheerful, a busy, respectable advocate making a decent living, with a loving wife and the first of their five children.
Dec 21, 2021 · Boswell, who was predeceased by his wife, is survived by their sons Leslie, Lorne, Lindsay, Lyall and Louis, eight grandchildren and four great grandchildren.
May 16, 2013 · Mr Knox, who with his wife Caroline is the driving force behind the Boswell Book Festival, is seeking to revive the reputation of the Scot who is often just seen as a companion to his older...
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- May 19, 1795
- October 29, 1740
- The Life of Samuel Johnson.
- London Journal, 1762 - 1763 by James Boswell, Frederick A. Pottle (Editor)
- Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides.
- Life of Johnson, Volume 1 1709-1765 by James Boswell, George Birkbeck Hill (Editor)
Boswell, James (1740–1795), lawyer, diarist, and biographer of Samuel Johnson, was born in Edinburgh on 29 October 1740, probably at the family's house on the fourth storey of Blair's Land, Parliament Close, the eldest son of Alexander Boswell, Lord Auchinleck (1707–1782), and his first wife, Euphemia, née Erskine (bap. 1718, d. 1766).
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Boswell and Margaret were married on the same day—November 19, 1769—as his father was remarried, his first wife having died in 1766. Relations between the two couples remained cold.
