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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 62. Chapters: People from Burntwood, People from Elmhurst, Staffordshire, People from Lichfield, People from Shenstone, Staffordshire, Samuel Johnson, Erasmus Darwin, George Farquhar, David Garrick, Joseph Addison, Matty Fryatt, Elias Ashmole, Samuel Parkes, Theophilus Levett, Siobhan Dillon, Alan Wiley, Dean Williams, Francis Perceval Eliot, Sir William Parker, 1st Baronet, of Shenstone, Thomas Levett, Gregory King, Adam Christodoulou, David Charles Manners, Paul Manning, Richard Allinson, Helen Baxendale, Chris Slater, Henry Salt, Paul Masefield, Sian Brooke, Steve Biggins, Edward John Eliot, Robert Rock, Kid rad, Richard Vyse, Charles Darwin, Roly Harper, John Floyer, Noel George, Jason Robinson, George Smalridge, Richard Garnett, Thomas Newton, Richie Edwards, John Hinch, Zachary Babington, Kim Betts, Brendan Neiland, Philip Carrington, Edmund Gennings, Louis Lillywhite, Sir Theophilus Biddulph, 1st Baronet, John Wyatt, Richard Dyott, Robert Radford. Excerpt: Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 - 13 December 1784), often referred to as Dr. Johnson, was an English author who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. Johnson was a devout Anglican and committed Tory, and has been described as "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history." He is also the subject of "the most famous single work of biographical art in the whole of literature" James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson. Johnson was born in Lichfield, Staffordshire, and attended Pembroke College, Oxford for just over a year, before his lack of funds forced him to leave. After working as a teacher he moved to London, where he began to write miscellaneous pieces for The Gentleman's Magazine. His early works include the biography The Life of Richard Savage, the ...
