Alexander Boswell (judge)
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Alexander Boswell (1706-1782), lord of Auchinleck, was a judge of the supreme courts of Scotland. He was the father of the author and biographer James Boswell, and grandfather of songwriter Sir Alexander Boswell.
Most noted for rescuing of the Auchinleck Manuscript 1740 from a professor of the University of Aberdeen who was in the process of destroying it. He donated the manuscript to the Advocates' Library in Edinburgh.
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- This article incorporates public domain text from: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London, J.M. Dent & sons; New York, E.P. Dutton.Template:Scotland-bio-stub