Alexander Boswell, Lord Auchinleck

[1] He was appointed Sheriff of Wigtown in 1748 but resigned the position in 1750 after inheriting the Auchinleck estate in Ayrshire on the death of his father.

He is noted for rescuing the Auchinleck manuscript in 1740 from a professor of the University of Aberdeen who was in the process of destroying it.

He married Euphemia Erskine (1718–1766) in 1738; their children included James, John (1743–1798) and (Thomas) David (1748–1826).

Thomas David was a merchant trading with Spain before becoming head of the Prize Department of the Navy.

After Euphemia's death in 1766 he married his cousin Elizabeth Boswell on the same day as his son James's marriage in 1769.