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2 unusual facts about Bennet Langton


Bennet Langton

He married Mary, née Lloyd (d. 1785), widow of John Leslie, 10th Earl of Rothes, in 1770 and they had four sons and five daughters.

Topham Beauclerk

As Bennet Langton records: 'His affection for Topham Beauclerk was so great, that when Beauclerk was labouring under that severe illness which at last occasioned his death, Johnson said (with a voice faultering with emotion), "Sir, I would walk to the extent of the diameter of the earth to save Beauclerk".' (Boswell 1672).



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