Boswell

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Boswell may refer to:

Places

Canada

  • Boswell, British Columbia, a rural community
  • Boswell, British Columbia (Central Coast), a former cannery town
  • Mount Boswell, Alberta

England

  • Boswell, a hamlet in Elkington, Lincolnshire

United States

  • Boswell, Indiana, a town
  • Boswell, Oklahoma, a town
  • Boswell, Pennsylvania, a borough
  • Boswell Bay, Alaska, a place in Alaska

People

  • Boswell (surname)
  • James Boswell (1740–1795), Scottish lawyer, diarist, author, and biographer of Samuel Johnson
  • Clan Boswell, a Lowland Scottish clan
  • Boisil or Boswell (died 661), Christian saint and abbot
  • Boswell Williams (1926–2014), Saint Lucian politician
  • Chris Boswell, placekicker for the Pittsburgh Steelers

Education

  • The Boswells School, a secondary school in Chelmsford, Essex, England
  • Boswell High School, Fort Worth, Texas, United States
  • Boswell School, Izard County, Arkansas, United States, a school building on the National Register of Historic Places

Other uses

  • Boswell Observatory, at Doane College in Nebraska, US
  • Boswells of Oxford, or simply Boswells, a department store in Oxford, England
  • Boswell baronets, an extinct title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
  • Boswell (horse), a Thoroughbred racehorse
  • Boswell: A Modern Comedy, a novel by Stanley Elkin

See also

  • Boswell's Tavern, an 18th-century tavern near Gordonsville, Virginia, United States, on the National Register of Historic Places
  • Boswellia, a genus of trees
  • Boswil, a municipality in Switzerland
  • St Boswells, Scotland
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