Coleridge, William Hart

Coleridge, William Hart a bishop of the Church of England, was appointed to the see of Barbadoes at its erection in 1824, and resigned the bishopric in 1841. Upon the establishment of St. Augustine's College, Canterbury, he was chosen its first warden, possessing eminent talent for the education of missionaries. He died at Ottery St. Mary, Devonshire, December 21, 1849, in the sixtieth year of his age. His scholarship was unquestionable. See Amer. Quar. Church Rev. 1850, page 160.