John was boarded at a house close by the Charterhouse, and only allowed to go home at rare intervals.
"John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1"
William Powell Frith
I do not know the precise time at which the doors of the Coffee-House were finally closed and the father Leech, with his large family, was thrown upon the world; but it must have been some years after the subject of this memoir had been enrolled amongst the Charterhouse scholars, an event that took place when he was seven years old.
"John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1"
William Powell Frith
The incidents of the Poem have also slightly touched me, inasmuch as I was a contemporary of Arthur H. Hallam, at Eton; and I was in Chapman's house, at Charterhouse, with Edmund Law Lushington, when he was, at a very early age, captain of the school.
"A Key to Lord Tennyson's 'In Memoriam'"
Alfred Gatty