01822nam 2200409 450 991079836180332120230808193118.01-4438-9325-0(CKB)3710000000666624(EBL)4535270(MiAaPQ)EBC4535270(OCoLC)949668955(FINmELB)ELB150167(EXLCZ)99371000000066662420160623h20162016 uy 0engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierDr Johnson's friend and Robert Adam's client Topham Beauclerk /by David NoyNewcastle upon Tyne, [England] :Cambridge Scholars Publishing,2016.©20161 online resource (312 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4438-9037-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 di828.609Noy David241604MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910798361803321Dr Johnson's friend and Robert Adam's client Topham Beauclerk3697582UNINA