Dr Samuel Johnson's big day

An 18th-century wedding for the father of the English dictionary

The great English lexicographer and man of letters Dr Samuel Johnson was married at St Werburgh's Church in Derby, now in our care. 

Johnson and his bride rode on horseback to the wedding on 9th July 1735, as recounted in Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson. 

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  St Werburgh's Church, Derby, Derbyshire

  The church where Dr Samuel Johnson was married