Boswell
Appearance
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Boswell may refer to:
Places
[edit]Canada
[edit]- Boswell, British Columbia, a rural community
- Boswell, British Columbia (Central Coast), a former cannery town
- Mount Boswell, Alberta
England
[edit]- Boswell, a hamlet in Elkington, Lincolnshire
United States
[edit]- Boswell, Indiana, a town
- Boswell, Oklahoma, a town
- Boswell, Pennsylvania, a borough
- Boswell Bay, Alaska, a place in Alaska
People
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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