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Tuesday 27 October, 12.30 - 2pm. £3.96 (booking required). 'Faithful Frank' lived just off Fleet Street. He is better known as Francis Barber, servant, friend and heir of Samuel Johnson, the creator of the Dictionary of the English Language (1755).

Explore Samuel Johnson’s flawed yet determined efforts as a teacher, beginning with his short-lived school, Edial Hall, and later in his own household, focusing especially on his education of Francis Barber, the Black child he helped raise and who would become England’s first Black schoolmaster.

Anna Williams was Dr Johnson’s companion of 30 years. She lived with him in his house in Gough Square from 1752 and at his later Fleet Street residences until her death in 1783.

the House has one remarkable story which is still not as well known as it deserves: it is about the life of Francis Barber.