<p>The story unfolds in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Fife. Two newly donated portraits prompt the telling of the tragic death in a duel of Alexander Boswell, son of the celebrated 18th-century diarist James Boswell of <a title="Auchinleck House link" href= "https://www.landmarktrust.org.uk/search-and-book/properties/auchinleck-house-4834/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Auchinleck House</a>.</p>

The story unfolds in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Fife. Two newly donated portraits prompt the telling of the tragic death in a duel of Alexander Boswell, son of the celebrated 18th-century diarist James Boswell of Auchinleck House.

<p>The story unfolds in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Fife. Two newly donated portraits prompt the telling of the tragic death in a duel of Alexander Boswell, son of the celebrated 18th-century diarist James Boswell of <a title="Auchinleck House link" href="https://www.landmarktrust.org.uk/search-and-book/properties/auchinleck-house-4834/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Auchinleck House</a>.</p>

Sir Alexander Boswell & The Last Duel in Scotland

A look into the work of The Landmark Trust, a conservation charity that restores historic buildings at risk by turning them into holiday accommodation.

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