James Boswell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on October 29, 1740, and died in London, England, on May 19, 1795. The eldest son of a Scottish judge, Alexander Boswell, Lord Auchinleck, he was educated by a private tutor and at Edinburg High School adn the University of Edinburgh. His lifelong friendship with the clergyman William Johnson Temple, a friend of a poet Thomas Gray, began at the uniā¦