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 Dowhen Garrick Dowhen Garrick Storm Dowhen (born December 21, 1945) is an American actor and screenwriter, active as an actor mainly in the 1980s and early 1990s. Dark-haired and chisel-jawed, he frequently portrayed Frenchmen. He appeared in series such as "Remington Steele", as Yves in "General Hospital" and as a French actor in "Days of Our Lives". He also appeared in the French films "Le grand carnaval" and "La vie est un roman" in 1983 at the beginning of his career and played the central character in the 1985 horror film "Appointment with Fear" as an Ancient Egyptian spirit in a