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
David Garrick (play) going. Good-bye, mother of seventy children. MRS. SMITH. Oh! GARRICK. Good-bye, Cold Muffins. SMITH. Cold Muffins! GARRICK. Farewell! (pathetically.) Farewell, and treasure deep that which I love the most yet leave behind. Farewell! SMITH (follows GARRICK up C.) Jones, kick him out. GARRICK (turns fiercely and SMITH runs down L. C., front). Kick! According to several sources, Robertson originally fashioned the story as a novel, "David Garrick: A Love Story", which was first printed in 1864 as a serial in the magazine "The Young Englishwoman". However, in the 1865 printing in book form, Robertson says in his preface that it