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Name
Benjamin Caron
Alias
Carron
Biography

Reader at the English church in Utrecht from 1754 until at least 1763. Son of a French father and an English mother. Formerly a wig maker in London.1

Life with Boswell

Carron was Boswell's teacher of French in Utrecht 1763-64 and was one of Boswell's few English acquaintances in the city.