Tobias Smollett, Scottish-Italian poet and author (died 1771) (baptised on this day)

Tobias Smollett

Scottish writer and surgeon (1721–1771)

Tobias George Smollett was a Scottish writer and surgeon. He was best known for writing picaresque novels such as The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748), The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751) and The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771), which influenced later generations…