Personal data Name John Charles Biography Reverend at the Church-of-England chapel in Amsterdam around 1764. Probably the John Charles, D.D. who is listed as chaplain of the Church of England in Amsterdam in 1741.1 1Listed in the Rev. William Steven's "The History of the Scottish Church, Rotterdam", p. 282 (find it at [Abebooks]) Life with Boswell Boswell went to Charles' sermon on May 26, 1764, describing the sermon as good and Charles as "a very pretty man". Mentioned in Boswell in Holland 1763-64