See Also: Boucher, Jonathan(encyclopedia)
Jonathan(dictionary)
Jonathan(encyclopedia)
Hutchinson, Sir Jonathan(medicine)
Edwards, Jonathan(dictionary)
Swift, Jonathan(encyclopedia)
Jonathan (as used in expressions)(encyclopedia)
Swift, Jonathan(dictionary)
Eybeschutz, Jonathan(encyclopedia)
Edwards, Jonathan(encyclopedia)

Boucher, Jonathan (sh)




born March 12, 1738, Cumberland, Eng.
died April 27, 1804, Epsom, Surrey

English-American clergyman.

He went to Virginia in 1759 as a private tutor. As rector of Annapolis, Md., he tutored George Washington's stepson and became a family friend. His royalist views cost him his position and he was forced to return to England in 1775. In his retirement he wrote A View of the Causes and Consequences of the American Revolution (1779); his glossary of "archaic and provincial words" was later used for Noah Webster's dictionary.