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Which future actor was a student at Samuel Johnson’s school in Edial?

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Painting of Samuel Johnson showing Johnson seated at a desk with a quill in hand and papers before him, wearing a brown coat and white wig. — Samuel Johnson Samuel Johnson, oil on canvas by Sir Joshua Reynolds, c. 1756; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

The future actor who was a student at Samuel Johnson’s school in Edial was David Garrick.

Johnson opened the academy at Edial in 1736, and Garrick was among his pupils there. The two later traveled to London together in 1737, and Garrick went on to become the most celebrated English actor of his age.12