Boswelliana: The Commonplace Book of James Boswell, with a Memoir and Annotations

part in the rebellion of 1745. Elected Dean of Faculty in 1764, he was

raised to the bench in 1775 by the title of Lord Covington. He died 10th November, 1782, aged eighty-two.

[195] John, third Earl of Bute, the favourite minister of George III., a munificent patron of literature, and himself an accomplished scholar and man of science. Lord Bute died 10th March, 1792.

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