But it took just a smidge over 150 years for another dictionary to be published that, arguably, set the standard for those that followed. On 15 April 1755, Dr Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the ...

Dramadocumentary telling the story of Samuel Johnsons creation of the first English dictionary in an attic room just off Fleet Street in Georgian London The depressive writerforhire with Tourettes ...

Samuel Johnson was also praised by the Earl of Chesterfield, who described the dictionary as “as near to perfection as any one man could do.” Johnson, however, recalled that the Earl had once ...

Following his Dictionary, Samuel Johnson is perhaps most famous for saying 'when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life…', but is also remembered for having the ability to sum up a ...