TY - BOOK ID - 78491314 TI - Dr. Johnson's friend and Robert Adam's client Topham Beauclerk PY - 2016 SN - 1443893250 9781443893251 9781443890373 1443890375 PB - Newcastle upon Tyne, UK DB - UniCat KW - Johnson, Samuel, KW - Jonsan, Śāmuʼél, KW - Author of the Rambler, KW - Rambler, Author of the, KW - Gʹonson, Samyuʼel, KW - صمويل جونسون KW - Friends and associates. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78491314 AB - 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 ER -