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Rudolf Ulrich van Sporken - Baron Sporck
Married (1721) to Susanna van Slingelandt (1700-1737). The couple had several children including Charlotte Louise (1733-1816).1
Von Sporck served as Envoy Extraordinary to the Hague for Hannover.
Boswell visited the Baron on December 28, 1763, at The Hague.
1Charltote Louise van Sporcken married (1763) Seneca Ingwersen (1715-1786), who had amassed a substantial fortune in the Dutch East Indies before being ennobled as Baron Geltingen by King Frederick V of Denmark in 1758.
Unless otherwise noted, the source for a dated quotation of Boswell's is generally the corresponding volume of the Yale Trade Editions of Boswell's journals.
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