Lichfield on the main routes from London to the north-west and Birmingham to the north-east. It also became a centre of great intellectual activity, being the home of many famous people including Samuel Johnson, David Garrick, Erasmus Darwin and Anna Seward; this prompted Johnson's remark that Lichfield was "a city of philosophers". In the 1720s Daniel Defoe described Lichfield as 'a fine, neat, well-built, and indifferent large city', the principal town in the region after Chester. During the late 18th and early 19th century much of the medieval city was rebuilt with the red-brick Georgian style buildings still to be seen
Stanley Garrick Alagoa), a linguist and university lecturer. The Garrick Memorial School, a secondary school in Benin City, is named in honour of Stanley David Garrick and its ethos is based on his spirit of civic duty. Stanley Garrick Stanley David Garrick, Egaibu of Siluko (8 June 1888 – 12 May 1958) was a senior administrator and courtier to His Royal Highness Oba Akenzua II, the 37th Oba of the Kingdom of Benin, now southern Nigeria. His father was a Sierra Leone Creole catechist called J. D. Garrick. Garrick was appointed to run Benin's postal service in 1923 after the Southern Nigerian