King Edward VI School, Lichfield Patriae, Scholae", is broadly translated as "for God, Country, and School". In the 18th century a number of eminent people were educated at the school. These included the great scholar and compiler of the first English dictionary, Dr. Samuel Johnson (the buildings of the former grammar school bear his name), David Garrick, the actor, and Joseph Addison, the essayist and politician. Two of the school's four houses are named after Addison and Garrick. (The other houses are named after Roger de Clinton who founded a priory in Lichfield in the 12th century and Erasmus Darwin, who lived in the City
Garrick Médecin Garrick Médecin Garrick Médecin is a short story written by Joseph Bouchardy, printed 1835/1836 in installments in the newspaper "Le Monde Dramatique" which was founded by his brother, Anatole Bouchardy. It was the basis for several plays including "Sullivan" (1852) and "Le Docteur Robin" (1842) which were respectively adapted into the English plays "David Garrick" (1864) and "Doctor Davy" (1865). In 2015, the story was translated into English as "The Acting Physician" and published in Vol. 3 No. 2 of "Romance Magazine." The plot concerns Doney, the Duke of Tavistock, promising a reward of twenty thousand pounds to the doctor