Samuel taylor coleridge biography timeline template

Oct 21, 1772

Coleridge Born

Samuel Taylor Coleridge is born in Ottery St. Mary, Devonshire, the youngest of ten children of John and Anne Bowden Coleridge.

1775

Starts School

At the age of three, Coleridge enrolls at Dame Key's Reading School.

He later attends Henry VIII Free Grammar School in Ottery St. Mary.

Oct 6, 1781

Father Dies

Coleridge's father, the Reverend John Coleridge, dies. Samuel is sent to Christ's Hospital, a London boarding school that gives free education to orphans.

1793

Enlists in the Army

On a whim, Coleridge enlists in the 15th Light Dragoons under the alias Silas Tomkyn Comberbache.

He proves to be a terrible soldier.

Apr 1794

Pantisocracy

The Coleridge family pays to extract Samuel from the army, and he returns to Cambridge.

Samuel taylor coleridge biography timeline template

With fellow student Robert Southey, he organizes a utopian society known as the Pantisocracy. Coleridge leaves Cambridge without a degree. He lectures and w