James Boswell blue plaque

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# 122 Great Portland Street Standing before this elegant townhouse in Westminster, you're at the final chapter of one of literature's most remarkable lives. James Boswell, the Scottish advocate who had spent decades trailing Samuel Johnson through London's streets and coffeehouses, retreated to thi...

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122 Great Portland Street, Westminster, W1

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James Boswell (1740-1795) biographer lived and died in a house on this site