Boswell (surname)

Boswell is a Scottish family name and may refer to the following individuals:

  • Alexander Boswell (1706 – 1782), judge of the Scottish supreme court and father of James Boswell
  • Sir Alexander Boswell (1775 – 1822), a Scottish songwriter, son of James Boswell, grandson of Alexander Boswell
  • Bobby Boswell (born 1983), American soccer player
  • Charles Wallace Boswell (1886 – 1956), New Zealand politician
  • Dave Boswell (1945 - 2012), American baseball player
  • Granny Boswell (c. 1817 – 1909), Cornish Gipsy
  • James Boswell (1740 – 1795), Scottish lawyer, diarist, author, and biographer of Samuel Johnson
  • James Griffin Boswell (1882 – 1952), American businessman
  • John Boswell (1947 – 1994), American historian and Yale professor
  • Ken Boswell (born 1946), American baseball player
  • Kenneth Boswell, New Zealand rower
  • Kris Boswell, Swedish radio personality
  • Leonard Boswell (born 1934), American politician
  • Lewis Archer Boswell (1834 – 1909), aviation pioneer
  • Mark Boswell (born 1977), Canadian athlete
  • Ron Boswell (born 1940), Australian politician
  • Scott Boswell (born 1974), English cricketer
  • Thomas Boswell (born 1958), Washington Post sports columnist
  • Tim Boswell (born 1942), British politician

Or the family group:

  • The Boswell Sisters, American singers (sisters Martha, 1905 – 1958; Connee, 1907 – 1976; Helvetia aka "Vet", 1911 – 1988)

And see also:

  • the Boswell family, Kings of the Gypsies
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Famous quotes containing the word boswell:

    “People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along? Can we get along? Can we stop making it, making it horrible for the older people and the kids?
    A man cannot know himself better than by attending to the feelings of his heart and to his external actions, from which he may with tolerable certainty judge “what manner of person he is.” I have therefore determined to keep a daily journal.”
    —James Boswell (1740–1795)