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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor
Coleridge (1772-1834) is said to have
taken the name Silas Tomkyn Comberbache,
or Silas Tomken Cumberbatch.
Note the initials of both names - STC.
| Poet and Philosopher |
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Educated at Christ's Hospital, and Jesus
College, Cambridge, studying Latin, Greek, Medicine and Metaphysics,
and adopted extreme religious and political views. |
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Enlisted in the Fifteenth
(King's) Light Dragoons, 1793, under the pseudonym "Silas Tomkyn
Comberbach", but was bought out by his brothers a year later
(reputedly following his discovery as an educated Gentleman, resulting
from his correction of a point of Latin being discussed by two
Officers as they entered the mess outside which he was on sentry
duty). |
| Returned again to Cambridge, 1794, and became
politically active, particularly against Pitt. |
| Began to publish poems, 1795 |
| Married Sarah Fricker, 1795 |
| Known to be taking Laudanum, 1796 |
| Preached in Unitarian Chapels |
| Began association with Wordsworth, 1797
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| Received annuities from Josiah and Thomas
Wedgewood [Thomas Wedgwood bought
Staffs properties in Burslem 1712-1793 from the trustees of a
Cumberbatch, see: Staffordshire and
Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service via
Access2Archives] |
| Became addicted to Opium, 1803 |
| Visited Malta, 1804-5, and Rome, 1805-6
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| Lectured at the Royal Institution, 1808
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| Moved to Grasmere in 1809, becoming dependent
on Wordsworth |
| Annuity from Josiah Wedgewood stopped, 1812
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| Acted at Drury Lane, 1813 |
| Left his Family, 1813, now unable to disguise
his addiction |
| Lived, with John Morgan, at Calne, Wiltshire,
1813 -16 |
| Lived, with James Gillman, at Highgate, 1816 -
34 |
| Visited Germany, 1828 |
Source:
The
15th, or Kings, Light Dragoons (Hussars) originally at
http://www.xvld.bfpo.co.uk/personality_frame.htm
His
Quotations
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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to
myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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Common-sense
in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
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