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Excerpt from Coleridge Early Years by Richand Holmes
"...the most handsome and dashing of the boys, who would also go to India. `All my Brothers are remarkably handsome,` observed
Coleridge mournfully, `but they were as inferior to Francis as I am to them.` This question of "inferiority" was to be a recurring anxiety of the youngest, uncertain whether he was the Benjamin or the black sheep."
Frank was promoted to Lt. on June 5, 1790
Coleridge, The Early Family Letters, James Engell, p. 97 Clarendon Press, Oxford 1994 sites records of Bernard Lord Coleridge written after his book, A Story of a Devonshire House;
"Francis Coleridge
Cadet 1782
Lieutenant 5th June 1790
Died 21 Jan: 1792 in the Carnatic.
No cadet papers, or record of marriage or burial
..."
Carnatic is the European name for the region including Mysore, SE India between the eastern Ghats and coast, now Karnataka.
IGI Information
Francis Syndercombe COLERIDGE
Sex: M
Event(s):
Christened: 6 Jun 1770
Ottery Saint Mary, Devon, England
Parents:
Father: John COLERIDGE
Mother: Ann
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