Stephen Coleridge

British lawyer and writer (1854–1936)

The Honourable

Stephen Coleridge
Portrait of Stephen Coleridge by Bernard Partridge
Born(1854-05-31)31 May 1854
Died10 April 1936(1936-04-10) (aged 81)
Occupation(s)Activist, author, barrister
Parent(s)John Duke Coleridge
Jane Fortescue Seymour

Stephen William Buchanan Coleridge (31 May 1854 – 10 April 1936) was an English author, barrister, opponent of vivisection, and co-founder of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

Biography

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.[1] 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.[2]

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.

Coleridge was also an accomplished landscape artist, who exhibited at the Alpine Club Gallery, the Suffolk Street galleries and the Royal Academy.[3]

He was president of the League for the Prohibition of Cruel Sports and director of the National Anti-Vivisection Society.[4]

Selected publications

  • Broken Gods (1903)
  • Vivisection: A Heartless Science (1916)
  • Great Testimony Against Scientific Cruelty (1918)

Gallery

  • Coleridge, circa 1873
    Coleridge, circa 1873
  • Coleridge caricatured by ELF for Vanity Fair, 1910
    Coleridge caricatured by ELF for Vanity Fair, 1910

References

  1. ^ Duff, M.E.G. (1911). "Coleridge, John Duke Coleridge, 1st Baron" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 6 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 677.
  2. ^ "Coleridge, Stephen William Buchanan (CLRG873SW)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. ^ "Hon. Stephen William Buchanan Coleridge". Richard Gardner Antiques. Retrieved 18 October 2020.
  4. ^ Who's Who 1935. The Macmillan Company. p. 575

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John Coleridge[i]
(1718–1781)		Ann Bowden[i]
(1727–1809)
Luke Herman Coleridge[ii]
(1765–1790)		Frances Duke Taylor
(1760–1838)		James Coleridge
(1759–1836)		Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(1772–1834)		Sara Fricker
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William Hart Coleridge[ii]
(1789–1849)		Francis George Coleridge
(1794–1854)		Edward Coleridge
(1800–1883)		Henry Nelson Coleridge[iii]
(1798–1843)		Sara Coleridge[iii]
(1802–1852)		Hartley Coleridge
(1796–1849)		Derwent Coleridge
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John Taylor Coleridge
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Henry James Coleridge
(1822–1893)		Alethea Coleridge
(1827–1909)		John Mackarness
(1820–1889)		Charles Edward Coleridge
(1827–1875)		Herbert Coleridge
(1830–1861)		Christabel Rose Coleridge
(1843–1921)		Ernest Hartley Coleridge
(1846–1920)
John Coleridge
(1820–1894)		Francis James Coleridge
(1825–1862)		Arthur Duke Coleridge
(1830–1913)
Stephen Coleridge
(1854–1936)		Bernard Coleridge
(1851–1927)		Mary Mackarness
(1851–1940)		Percy Duke Coleridge
(1850–1881)		Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
(1861–1907)
Jessie Alethea Mackarness
(1881–1957)		Geoffrey Coleridge
(1877–1955)		John Coleridge
(1878–1951)
Richard Coleridge
(1905–1984)		Cecilia Fisher
(1909–1991)		Sylvia Coleridge
(1909–1986)
William Coleridge
(born 1937)
Notes:
  1. ^ a b Srinivasan, Archana (2004). Eminent English Writers. Sura Books. p. 12. ISBN 9788174785299.
  2. ^ a b  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wroth, Warwick William (1887). "Coleridge, William Hart". In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 11. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  3. ^ a b Barbeau, Jeffrey W. (2014). Sara Coleridge: Her Life and Thought. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781137430854.
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