Hill Boothby

Hill Boothby (27 October 1708 – 16 January 1756) was an English friend and late love of Samuel Johnson.

[1] Anna Seward called her the sublimated methodistic Hill Boothby who read her bible in Hebrew.

Boothby made the acquaintance of Dr. Samuel Johnson whilst he was staying with Dr. John Taylor when they were younger, although at the time he was interested in another[2] in 1739-40.

He believed that wine and dried orange peel was of benefit for the bowels.

He had written echoing Descartes that “I am alive therefore I love Miss Boothby”.