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What job did Samuel Taylor Coleridge hold in Malta?

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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.

While living in Malta in 1804, Samuel Taylor Coleridge served as the secretary to the acting governor, Sir Alexander John Ball.12