Sir Brooke Boothby, 6th Baronet was an English linguist, translator, minor poet and landowner in Derbyshire. He was part of the intellectual and literary circle of Lichfield which included Anna Seward and Erasmus Darwin. He welcomed Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Ashbourne circles in 1766 when the philosopher fled London after a short stay there where hospitality was provided by Hume.

PropertyValue
dbpedia-owl:Person/birthDate
  • 1744-06-03 (xsd:date)
dbpedia-owl:Person/birthPlace
dbpedia-owl:Person/deathDate
  • 1824-01-23 (xsd:date)
dbpedia-owl:Person/deathPlace
dbpedia-owl:Person/nationality
dbpedia-owl:Person/residence
dbpedia-owl:Person/title
  • 6th Boothby Baronet of Broadlow Ash
dbpedia-owl:birthDate
  • 1744-06-03 (xsd:date)
dbpedia-owl:birthPlace
dbpedia-owl:deathDate
  • 1824-01-23 (xsd:date)
dbpedia-owl:deathPlace
dbpedia-owl:nationality
dbpedia-owl:residence
dbpedia-owl:thumbnail
dbpedia-owl:title
  • 6th Boothby Baronet of Broadlow Ash
dbpprop:abstract
  • Sir Brooke Boothby, 6th Baronet was an English linguist, translator, minor poet and landowner in Derbyshire. He was part of the intellectual and literary circle of Lichfield which included Anna Seward and Erasmus Darwin. He welcomed Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Ashbourne circles in 1766 when the philosopher fled London after a short stay there where hospitality was provided by Hume. Boothby visited Rousseau in Paris in 1776 and was given the manuscript of the first part of Rousseau's three part Confessions which was his autobiography. Boothby translated the manuscript and published in Lichfield in 1780 after the author's death and donated the document to the British Library in 1781. Boothby's unusual portrait by Joseph Wright of Derby from 1781, one of the favourites of English 18th. century painting, shows him reclining in a wooded glade with a book carrying on its cover simply the name Rousseau, indicating his interest in the writer and his work generally rather than it referring to one of Rousseau's works in particular. The portrait is a metaphor for Boothby's admiration of Rousseau and his efforts to promote him with the English intelligentsia. His daughter was painted by Henry Fuseli and Joshua Reynolds and sculpted by Thomas Banks, as well as being the subject of a book of poetry by her grieving father.
dbpprop:birthPlace
dbpprop:caption
dbpprop:children
  • Penelope
dbpprop:dateOfBirth
  • 3 June George Edward Cokayne, editor, , 5 volumes (no date (c. 1900); reprint, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 1983), volume III, page 83.
dbpprop:dateOfDeath
dbpprop:deathPlace
dbpprop:education
  • Christ Church, Oxford
dbpprop:imageSize
  • 150px
dbpprop:name
  • Sir Brooke Boothby, 6th Baronet
dbpprop:nationality
dbpprop:occupation
  • landowner and poet
dbpprop:parents
  • Sir Brooke Boothby, 5th Bt. and Phoebe Hollins
dbpprop:predecessor
  • Sir Brooke Boothby, 5th Baronet (1710-1789)
dbpprop:reference
dbpprop:residence
dbpprop:restingPlace
  • Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England
dbpprop:spouse
  • Susanna Bristoe
dbpprop:successor
  • His brother, Sir William Boothby, 7th Baronet (1746-1824)
dbpprop:title
dbpprop:wikiPageUsesTemplate
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • Sir Brooke Boothby, 6th Baronet was an English linguist, translator, minor poet and landowner in Derbyshire. He was part of the intellectual and literary circle of Lichfield which included Anna Seward and Erasmus Darwin. He welcomed Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Ashbourne circles in 1766 when the philosopher fled London after a short stay there where hospitality was provided by Hume.
rdfs:label
  • Sir Brooke Boothby, 6th Baronet
owl:sameAs
skos:subject
foaf:depiction
foaf:name
  • Sir Brooke Boothby, 6th Baronet
foaf:page
is dbpprop:redirect of