Lichfield

a city of Staffordshire, England, sixteen miles north from Birmingham. The name means field of the dead. The introduction of a t in the American Litchfield deprives the name of character. Lichfield possesses an English cathedral, a guild hall, a market hall, a corn exchange, a public library and museum. The population is about 8,000. The town is of interest to the traveler chiefly as the birthplace of Dr. Samuel Johnson. A statue in his honor stands in the marketplace facing the house where he was born. Garrick and Addison were educated in the old Lichfield grammar school.