A catalogue of notable Middle Templars, with brief biographical notices/Boscawen, William

by John Hutchinson

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Admitted 2 February, 1769.

Second son of General George Boscawen, and nephew of the Admiral Edward Boscawen. Born 28 Aug. 1752. He was educated at Eton and Oxford. He became a Commissioner in Bankruptcy, and in 1785 a Commissioner of the Victualling Office. He was the author of a work on Convictions on Penal Statutes (1792), but he found time to devote to literature, and published a Translation of Horace into English Verse (1793—8); The Progress of Satire (1798); and Original Poems (1801). He died 8 May, 1811.