Boswell Explained

Boswell may refer to:

Places

Canada

• Boswell, British Columbia, a rural community
• Boswell, British Columbia (Central Coast), a former cannery town
• Mount Boswell, Alberta

England

• Boswell, a hamlet in Elkington, Lincolnshire

United States

• Boswell, Indiana, a town
• Boswell, Oklahoma, a town
• Boswell, Pennsylvania, a borough
• Boswell Bay, Alaska, a place in Alaska

People

• Boswell (surname)
• James Boswell (1740–1795), Scottish lawyer, diarist, author, and biographer of Samuel Johnson
• Clan Boswell, a Lowland Scottish clan
• Boisil or Boswell (died 661), Christian saint and abbot
• Boswell Williams (1926–2014), Saint Lucian politician
• Chris Boswell, placekicker for the Pittsburgh Steelers

Education

• The Boswells School, a secondary school in Chelmsford, Essex, England
• Boswell High School, Fort Worth, Texas, United States
• Boswell School, Izard County, Arkansas, United States, a school building on the National Register of Historic Places

Other uses

• Boswell Observatory, at Doane College in Nebraska, US
• Boswells of Oxford, or simply Boswells, a department store in Oxford, England
• Boswell baronets, an extinct title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
• Boswell (horse), a Thoroughbred racehorse
• Boswell: A Modern Comedy, a novel by Stanley Elkin

See also

• Boswell's Tavern, an 18th-century tavern near Gordonsville, Virginia, United States, on the National Register of Historic Places
• Boswellia, a genus of trees
• Boswil, a municipality in Switzerland
• St Boswells, Scotland