Alexander Boswell
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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.
Most noted for rescuing of the Auchinleck Manuscript 1740 from a professor of Aberdeen University who was in the process of destroying it. He donated the manuscript to the Advocates' Library in Edinburgh.
Sir Alexander Boswell, (1775-1822), grandson of the preceding, was an antiquary and song writer, son of James Boswell, of Auchinleck, Johnson's biographer, was interested in old Scottish authors, some of whose works he reprinted at his private press. He wrote some popular Scotch songs, of which Jenny's Bawbee and Jenny dang the Weaver are the best known. Boswell died in a duel with Mr. Stuart of Dunearn.