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'Johnson's Birthplace at Lichfield', 1902. British author and lexicographer Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), who wrote the first authoritative Dictionary of the English Language, was born in this house which stands at the corner of Market Street and Breadmarket Street in Lichfield, Staffordshire. From "The English Illustrated Magazine", Volume XXVII, April to September 1902. [T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1902]