Henry Coleridge
Henry Coleridge
(1822-1893) Writer and preacher, born Ottery Saint Mary, Devonshire, England ; died Roehampton. He was the son of Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Judge of the King’s Bench, and a grand-nephew of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the poet. Educated at Oxford, he received Anglican orders in 1848 . He was actively interested in the Tractarian Movement and, although he served as curate at Alphington for a time, he abandoned the Anglican Communion and became a Catholic in 1852 . Ordained in Rome in 1856 , he joined the Jesuits on returning to England in 1857 . He served as professor of Scripture at Saint Beuno’s in North Wales from 1859 -1865 . He then went to London to become first Jesuit editor of “The Month,” taking on the editorship of “The Messenger” also, after 1877 . His published works include a classic commentary on “The Public Life of Our Lord,” “The Life and Letters of Saint Francis Xavier,” “The Life and Letters of Saint Teresa,” and a harmony of the Gospels, “Vita Vitre Nostre,” in English and Latin versions.