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author of Great Testimony Against Scientific Cruelty (1918) and The Idolatry of Science
Stephen Coleridge did not go, as did his brothers to Eton. He graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge and after a year (1879-1880) spent in travel, became private secretary to his father (1884-1890). In 1886 he was called to the bar by the Middle Temple. In 1890 the lord chief justice appointed him clerk of assize for the South Wales circuit. His natural kindness and courtesy made him popular with the members of the circuit.
An inherited rhetorical faculty characterized Coleridge's writings both in prose and in verse. Coleridge was best known to the public for his outspoken attacks upon vivisection. Hatred of cruelty in all forms, especially to children and animals was a marked feature of his character. He was one of the founders , in 1884, of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
(source: National Dictionary of Biographies)