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Lichfield

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Lichfield [ˈlɪtʃˌfiːld]
n
(Placename) a city in central England, in SE Staffordshire: cathedral with three spires (13th-14th century); birthplace of Samuel Johnson, during whose lifetime the Lichfield Group (a literary circle) flourished. Pop.: 28 666 (1991)


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SAMUEL JOHNSON was the son of a country bookseller, and he was born at Lichfield in 1709.
Johnson was born in 1709, the son of a bookseller in Lichfield.
He gave me a long account of some of his adventures, and particularly one when he robbed the West Chester coaches near Lichfield, when he got a very great booty; and after that, how he robbed five graziers, in the west, going to Burford Fair in Wiltshire to buy sheep.
 
 
 
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