Sir Brooke Boothby, 6th Baronet
Sir Brooke Boothby, 6th Baronet
Sir Brooke Boothby, 6th Baronet was a linguist, translator, poet and landowner, based in Derbyshire, England. He was part of the intellectual and literary circle of Lichfield, which included Anna Seward and Erasmus Darwin. In 1766 he welcomed the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Ashbourne circles, after Rousseau's short stay in London with Hume. Ten years later, in 1776, Boothby visited Rousseau in Paris, and was given the manuscript of the first part of Rousseau's three-part autobiographic Confessions. Boothby translated the manuscript and published it in Lichfield in 1780 after the author's death, and donated the document to the British Library in 1781.
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Date of Birth
June 3rd, 1744
Age
280
Birth Place
United Kingdom, England
Date of Death
January 23rd, 1824
Died Aged
79
Star Sign
Gemini
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Penelope Boothby
Daughter
Sir William Boothby, 7th Baronet
Brother
Sir Brooke Boothby, 5th Bt.
Father
Phoebe Hollins
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