William Coleridge, 5th Baron Coleridge

William Duke Coleridge, 5th Baron Coleridge (born 18 June 1937) is an hereditary peer who lives in Ottery St Mary in Devon, England.

Coat of arms

Biography

The son of Richard Duke Coleridge, the 4th Baron Coleridge, Coleridge was educated at Eton College in Berkshire, England, and at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in Berkshire. He served as an officer in the Coldstream Guards in Kenya between 1961 and 1963.[1] Coleridge was Commander of the Guards Independent Parachute Company between 1970 and 1972. He was Governor of the Royal West of England School for the Deaf. He retired from the British Army's Coldstream Guards with the rank of Major in 1977. He succeeded to the title of 5th Baron Coleridge of Ottery St. Mary in 1984 on the death of his father, the 4th Baron.[1]

Coleridge married Everild Tania Hambrough, the daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Beauchamp Hambrough, on 17 February 1962. They have three children, including Coleridge's only son, the Hon. James Duke Coleridge (b. 5 June 1967), the present heir to the Barony.[2] A daughter is the model and actress Tania Harcourt-Cooze. The marriage was dissolved in 1977. Later that year he married nurse and explorer Pamela Baker (b. 24 July 1947; d. 12 August 2018), daughter of George William Baker. He has two children from this second marriage.[1]

The ancestral home is The Chanter's House in Ottery St Mary in Devon. Coleridge was the last family member to live there because the increasing costs of maintaining the property caused the family trust in October 2006 to put the property up for sale and auction the contents.[3][4] In 1999 Coleridge had attempted to lease part of the family estate in order to raise money to prevent the sale.[5]

Coat of arms of William Coleridge, 5th Baron Coleridge
Crest
A crucifix Or rising from an otter as in the arms.
Escutcheon
Argent on a mount Vert in base an otter Proper; a chief Gules charged with a dove of the field between two crosses patée fitchée Or.
Supporters
Dexter an otter Proper, gorged with a garland of roses Gules leaved Vert, sinister a lion sable gorged as the former. [6]
gollark: Either way, the real-world credit card system... honestly seems woefully insecure and the only reason it works most of the time is the law and people being somewhat trustworthy.
gollark: I think you either need physical presence of the card or some numbers on it.
gollark: I would be worried about the networking between the payment terminals and central server, too - if it's not secured properly people could intercept it and/or run attacks on it.
gollark: You *don't* trust the payment terminals, because people can go around editing the code on them to do basically whatever, and they have to read the card and contact the bank server.
gollark: You trust the central server but it can't actually physically be there to handle every transaction somehow.

References
  1. Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition (2003), volume 1, page 851.
  2. Aristocracy UK website
  3. "Sotheby's to sell property from the Coleridge family collection at The Chanter's House" (PDF) (Press release). Sotheby's. 22 August 2006.
  4. "Coleridge heirlooms auctioned off". BBC. 24 October 2006.
  5. The Independent 26 June 1999.
  6. Debrett's Peerage. 1878.
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Richard Duke Coleridge		 Baron Coleridge
1984–present		 Incumbent
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