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Hartley Coleridge was the eldest son of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, was born on the 19th of September 1796, near Bristol, United Kingdom. He had inherited the weakness of purpose, as well as the splendid conversational powers, of his father, and lapsed into habits of intemperance.
Hartley Coleridge's early years were passed under Southey's care at Greta Hall, Keswick, and he was educated by the Rev. John Dawes at Ambleside. In 1815 he went to Oxford, as a scholar of Merton College.
Hartley Coleridge was successful in gaining an Oriel fellowship, but at the close of the probationary year (1820) was judged to have forfeited it.
The authorities could not be prevailed upon to reverse their decision; but they awarded to him a free gift of £300.
Hartley Coleridge then spent two years in London, where he wrote short poems for the London Magazine.
His next step was to become a partner in a school at Ambleside, but this scheme failed.
In 1830 a Leeds publisher, Mr. F. E. Bingley, made a contract with him to write biographies of Yorkshire and Lancashire worthies.
These were afterwards republished under the title of Biographia Borealis (1833) and Worthies of Yorkshire and Lancashire (1836).
His figure was as familiar as Wordsworth's, and his gentleness and simplicity of manner won for him the friendship of the country-people.
The closing decade of Coleridge's life was wasted in what he himself calls " the woeful impotence of weak resolve. "
