How did the Wedgwood brothers support Samuel Taylor Coleridge?

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Portrait of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge, detail of an oil painting by Washington Allston, 1814; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

In 1798, the brothers Josiah and Thomas Wedgwood provided significant financial support to Samuel Taylor Coleridge because they were impressed by his intelligence and potential. They offered him an annuity of £150, which allowed him the independence to pursue his intellectual interests and travel to Germany to study physiology and biblical criticism.1