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Author: Boswell, Robert

Biography:

BOSWELL, Robert (1740-1804: ancestry.co.uk)

Lawyer and hymn-writer. He was born at Auchinleck, Ayrshire, to John Boswell (the brother of the biographer) and Anne (Cramond) Boswell. In 1761, he was apprenticed to Thomas Tod, Writer to the Signet, presumably following legal studies at university. He married Sibella Sandeman in 1769 and from 1770 until his death he held the post of Lyon Clerk in the Scottish judiciary. Having taught himself to read scripture in Hebrew, he was very pious and probably a member of the Glasite sect (his wife was a cousin of Robert Sandeman who spread the Glasite church beyond Scotland). Boswell’s hymns were privately printed after his death. (ancestry.co.uk 4 May 2018; Charles Rogers, ed., Boswelliana: The Commonplace Book of James Boswell [1876])

 

Books written (1):

[Edinburgh]: printed for private circulation by [Capt. C. N. Tucker], [1820?]