Claud Irvine Boswell, Lord Balmuto

His father, John Boswell of Balmuto, a writer to the signet in Edinburgh, died when Claud was an infant.

After finishing his education at the University of Edinburgh, he was admitted a member of the Faculty of Advocates on 2 August 1766.

After nearly 23 years of judicial work he resigned in January 1822, and was succeeded by William Erskine, Lord Kinneder.

The death, under his own roof, of his kinsman, Sir Alexander Boswell, from the effects of a wound received by him in the duel with James Stuart of Dunearn, gave him a shock from which he never entirely recovered.

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