Life
Le Grice was born in Bury St. Edmunds to a clergyman father in 1773. Little is known of Le Grice’s early life but he was enrolled in Christ's Hospital some time around 1780 where he became a friend of other famous students including Leigh Hunt, Charles Lamb, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. His brother, Samuel Le Grice was also a classmate of Charles Lamb and was known to be a great comfort to Lamb after the murder of his mother at the hands of his sister Mary. Upon leaving Christ's Hospital as a Senior Grecian he passed on to Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1796 Charles Le Grice left London for Cornwall where he became a tutor to the son of a wealthy widow named Mrs. Nicholls who lived on the large estate of Trereife. In 1789 Le Grice was ordained and in 1799 he married Mrs. Nicholls. After the death of both Mrs. Nicholls and her son, Le Grice became a wealthy man. Le Grice had no contact with Charles Lamb after 1796 until they met again in 1834, the years of Lamb’s death.
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