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Dr Johnson's friend and Robert Adam's client Topham Beauclerk / by David Noy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Noy, David, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784.
- Johnson, Samuel.
- Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784--Friends and associates.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (312 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne, [England] : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.
- Summary:
- Dr Johnson said that he would walk to the ends of the earth to save Beauclerk. Other people who claimed to be his friends rejoiced at his early death. How did the beautiful youth of Francis Coates' 1756 portrait become a man whose greatest claim to fame was causing an infestation of lice at Blenheim Palace through lack of personal hygiene? A great-grandson of Charles II and Nell Gwyn, he lived a privileged life thanks to fortuitously inherited wealth. He employed Robert Adam to build him a house at Muswell Hill which has almost completely disappeared from the records of Adam's work due to a di
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 17, 2016).
- ISBN:
- 1-4438-9325-0
- OCLC:
- 949668955
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