Image: Sir Brooke Boothby 6th Bt mw19919

Description: Sir Brooke Boothby 6th Baronet (1744-1824). Sir Brooke Boothby was a minor poet and landowner in Derbyshire. He was part of the many people in the intellectual circles of Lichfield who welcomed Jean-Jaques Rousseau to England in 1766-7. After his return from exile Boothby visited Rousseau in Paris where he obtained a copy of his autobiography. Boothby was instrumental in the book being published in Lichfield in 1780 after the authors death. Many well-off people had their portraits rendered by Joseph Wright of Derby and Boothby's unusual portrait shows a copy of that book.
Title: Sir Brooke Boothby 6th Bt mw19919
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Author: John Raphael Smith
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