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How did the death of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s father affect his education?

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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.

Following the sudden death of his father in 1781, Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s education shifted from his home in Ottery St. Mary to London. In 1782, the year after his father passed away, he entered Christ’s Hospital, where he completed his secondary education before eventually enrolling at Jesus College, Cambridge, in 1791.1