Name Stephen Coleridge Role Author | ||
Died 1936, Chobham, United Kingdom Parents John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge Books The Glory of English Prose, The Glory of English Prose Let, An Evening in My Library A, Quiet Hours in the Temple, The Chobham Book of E | ||
Grandparents John Taylor Coleridge Great-grandparents James Coleridge | ||
Hon. Stephen William Buchanan Coleridge (1854–1936) was an English author, barrister, opponent of vivisection, and co-founder of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
Coleridge was the second son of John Duke Coleridge, Lord Chief Justice of England, and Jane Fortescue Seymour, an accomplished artist. His grandfather was nephew to the famous poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. At fourteen he was sent to the public school Bradfield College; this seems to have rankled since his father, grandfather and elder brother were all educated at the more prestigious Eton. He attended Trinity College, Cambridge where he graduated in 1878.
Coleridge came to widespread public attention in England in 1903, when he publicly accused William Bayliss of the Department of Physiology at University College London of having broken the law during an experiment on a dog, thereby sparking the Brown Dog affair. Bayliss sued for libel and was awarded damages of £2,000.