Tobias smollett biography

Tobias Smollett was born at Dalquhurn House on Dalquhurn Estate, in what became Renton, in 1721. He was the grandson of Sir James Smollett of Bonhill, who took the title “of Bonhill” form his ownership of the Place of Bonhill, which was just inside Bonhill Parish by a few yards. Sir James had purchased Dalquhurn as a residence for his “non-inheriting” children, although as we shall see, Tobias came close to inheriting the Smollett estates and money, which would have solved many of his problems and almost certainly allowed him to produce an even greater body of work.

He was educated at Dumbarton Grammar school and went from there to Glasgow University where he studied medicine. Since he was from the poorer branch of the Smollett family, he had to work for a living when he completed his medical studies in 1741.

This took him to London where he signed up as a ship's surgeon's mate in the 1741 Cartagena Expedition. This was a naval and

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Tobias Smollett was a Scottish satirical novelist, best known for his picaresque novels The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748) and The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751) and his epistolary novel The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771).

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Tobias George Smollett lived from 16 March 1721 to 17 September 1771.

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Tobias Smollett (1721-1771) was a Scottish poet and author.

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Tobias George Smollett (Ma – Septem) was a Scottish author, poet, and novelist, best known for his picaresque novels, such as Roderick Random and Peregrine Pickle that generally followed the comedic misadventures of well-meaning but unscrupulous vagabonds through the underbelly of English social life.

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Tobias George Smollett lived from 16 March 1721 to 17 September 1771.