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H. D. (Henry Duff) Traill
Henry Duff Traill (1842–1900) was an English author and journalist known for his biographies, essays, and historical works. He contributed to several periodicals, including "The Saturday Review", and held editorial roles at "The Observer" and "St. James's Gazette". Traill's notable works include "The Life of Sir John Franklin" and "The Life of Coleridge", both part of the "English Men of Letters" series. His writing is characterized by clarity and wit, and he was influential in late Victorian intellectual circles.
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Chapter IBirth, parentage, and early years – Christ's Hospital – Jesus College, Cambridge.[1772-1794.] On the 21st of October 1772 there was added to that roll of famous Englishmen of whom Devonshire boasts the parentage a new and not its least illustrious name. Samuel Taylor Coleridge was the son of the Rev. John Coleridge, vicar of Ottery St. Mary in that county, and head master of Henry...
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CHAPTER I. BIRTH, PARENTAGE, AND EARLY YEARS. (1713-1724.) Towards the close of the month of November, 1713, one of the last of the English regiments which had been detained in Flanders to supervise the execution of the treaty of Utrecht arrived at Clonmel from Dunkirk. The day after its arrival the regiment was disbanded; and yet a few days later, on the 24th of the month, the wife of one of its...
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