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Dr Samuel Johnson (Lichfield 18 September 1709 – London 13 December 1784)
Last Friday we remembered Samuel Johnson´s 300th birthday, he was an English author, a journalist, poet, essayist, moralist, novelist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. The "father" of English Dictionaries.
Johnson started his career working as a teacher and moved to London where he began to write for magazines. He wrote essays, biographies, poems, plays and after nine years of work, Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language was published in 1755; it had a far-reaching impact on Modern English. The Dictionary brought Johnson popularity and success. Until the completion of the Oxford English Dictionary, 150 years later, Johnson’s was viewed as the pre-eminent British dictionary.
After a series of illnesses he died on the evening of 13 December 1784, and was buried in Westminster Abbey.

In the following video you can watch Dr Johnson with Prince George (A young Hugh Laurie( House)in a funny comedy series.

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