The Temple may be chosen as the site of 4 memorial to mark the centenary of Charles Lamb's death, which falls on December 27 next," if a scheme, now being discussed by literary societies and other bodies throughout England, takes shape within the next few weeks, Lamb's sociations with the 'Temple was We-long, and Mr. B. V. Lucas, the authority on Lamb and originator of the "idea of a memorial, has suggest ed that a statue of Lamb should be put up just inside the railings facing No. 2 Crown Office 'Row in' the Temple. Tt was here that Lamb was born on Februéry 2, 1775, and here that he passed the first seven years of his life, his father being a clerk and servant to a Bencher of the Inner Temple.
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