| Evidence: | 'In my younger years I had read in the "Lives of the Convicts" so much about Tyburn that I had a sort of horrid eagerness to be there' |
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| Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Until: 4 May 1763 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | James Boswell |
| Age | Unknown |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 29 Oct 1740 |
| Socio-economic group: | Gentry |
| Occupation: | lawyer, diarist, and biographer of Samuel Johnson, and heir to the Auchinleck estate in Ayrshire |
| Religion: | Catholic |
| Country of origin: | Scotland |
| Country of experience: | Scotland |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | [unknown] |
| Title: | Lives of the convicts |
| Genre: | Biography, Law |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book, Pamphlet |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 24099 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | James Boswell | |
| Editor: | Frederick A. Pottle | |
| Title: | Boswell's London Journal, 1762-1763 | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1982 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 271 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | James Boswell, Frederick A. Pottle (ed.), Boswell's London Journal, 1762-1763 (London, 1982), p. 271, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=24099, accessed: 20 April 2024 | |
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