Lamb, Charles

e ayist and critic, born in London, and educated at Christ's Hospital, where he had Cole ridge for school-fellow; was for 35 years a clerk in the East India Company's office, on his retirement from which he was allowed a pension of £450; it was as a poet he made his first appearance in literature, but it was as an e ayist he attained distinction, and chiefly by his "E ays of Elia" he is best known and will be longest remembered; he was the friend of Words worth, Southey, and others of his illustrious contemporaries, and is famous for his witty remarks, to which his stammering tongue imparted a special zest; he was never married; his affection for his sister Mary, for whom he composed his "Tales from Shakespeare," is well known, and how in her weakne from insanity he tenderly nursed her (1775-1834).