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.
[1] In 1796 Charles Le Grice left London for Cornwall where he became a tutor to William John Godolphin (died 1815), a son of a wealthy widow, Mrs Nicholls (née Usticke) who lived on the estate of Trereife House, near Penzance.
[3] Le Grice died at Trereife on 24 December 1858 and is buried at St Maddern's Church, Madron.
[1] Charles Le Grice left little to posterity except some squibs, some reminiscences of Lamb and Coleridge, and a translation of the Greek Author Longus.
Lucas by Lord Courtney as "a jocund rubicund little man much of Charles Lamb`s height but plumper, full of pun and jokes, very genial, and in quality rather suggestive of one of Thomas Peacock`s diviners than of a man steeped in theological rancour."