Boswell, Alexander (Lord Auchinleck)
Biography: Scottish judge. Born Auchinleck, Ayrshire, 1707. Studied law at Leiden, passed advocate 1727. Sheriff of Wigtownshire 1748-50. Lived at Parliament Close, Edinburgh. Inherited the estate of Auchinleck, 1749. Appointed to the Court of Session 1754-82 and the Court of Justiciary 1755-80. Took the title Lord Auchinleck. Spent court recesses at Auchinleck. Built a mansion at Auchinleck 1762. Bought a house in the New Town of Edinburgh 1782, leaving a liferent to his second wife, which incensed his son James. Died Edinburgh, August 1782. Fine classical scholar and amassed an immense library.
Biography Date: 1707-82
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Book List
| Owner (other form of name) |
Book Title |
Author |
Publication Place |
Date |
| Boswel, Alex. |
Archaeologia graeca, or, The antiquities of Greece. (2 vols.) |
Potter, J. |
London |
1706 |
| Boswel, Alexr. |
De l'esprit des loix. |
Montesquieu, C de. |
Edinburgh |
1750 |
| Boswel, Alexr. |
(Collections Latin 1549) |
Horace |
Paris |
1549 |
| Boswell, Alex. |
Ouinti Horatii Flacci poemata, scoliis et argumentis ab Henr. Stephano illustrata. |
Horace. |
Paris |
1549 |
| Boswell, Alex. |
A. Persii Satyrarum liber I.D. Iunii Iuvenalis Satyrarum lib. V. Sulpiciae Satyra I. Cum veteribus commentariis nunc primum editis. Ex... |
Persius. |
Paris |
1585 |
| Boswell, Alex. |
Dicaearchi Geographica quaedam, sive de vita Graeciae. Eiusdem Descriptio Graeciae, versibus iambicis ad Theophrastum. Cum Lat. interpretatione atque annot. Henr.... |
Dicaearchus, Messenius. |
Geneva |
1589 |
| Boswell, Alex. |
De Gallica verborum declinatione. |
Estienne, R. |
Paris |
1540 |
| Boswell, Alex. |
Rudimenta. |
Despauterius, J. |
Paris |
1546 |
| Boswell, Alex. |
Les declinaisons des noms & verbes que doibet scauoir entieremetpar cueur les enfans, ausquels on veuet bailler entree a la... |
Estienne, R. |
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1545 |
| Boswell, Alex. |
Exempla de Latino declinatu partium orationis. |
Cordier, M. |
Paris |
1540 |
| Boswell, Alex. |
De Judicibus. |
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| Boswell, Alexander (Lord Auchinleck) |
De sublimitate libellus cum proifatione de vita and scriptis Longini notis, indicibus and variis lectionibus. |
Longinus. |
Oxford |
1710 |
| Boswell, Alexander (Lord Auchinleck) |
Les oeuvres. |
Molière. |
Amsterdam |
1713 |
| Boswell, Alexander (Lord Auchinleck) |
The works of Armand de Bourbon, Prince of Conti. |
Conti, Armand de Bourbon. |
London |
1711 |
| Boswell, Alexander (Lord Auchinleck) |
Critical reflections on poetry, painting and music, with an inquiry into the rise and progress of the theatrical entertainments of... |
Du Bos, J. |
London |
1748 |
| Boswell, Alexander (Lord Auchinleck) |
An essay concerning human understanding. |
Locke, J. |
London |
1721 |
