Michael S. Wright: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Was Born in Holborn and Raised in Croydon

[NPG 5724 Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by Walter Wallis (1881, oil on canvas) Copyright © National Portrait Gallery]

Michael S. Wright of the U.K. sends a correction regarding the birthplace of the Afro-British composer and conductor Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912), whose biography is featured at AfriClassical.com:

“I would like to advise you that Coleridge Taylor was NOT born in Croydon although he was brought up there (67 Waddon New Road, Croydon). He was actually born at 15 Theobalds Road, Holborn, London, the blue plaque is on the building which is now a branch of Pret a Manger which I frequented on a number of trips to meeting a lawyer in London.”

http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/blackeuro/coleridgebackground.html

http://www.blackandasianstudies.org/jeff.pdf/

Michael S. Wright
Holborn, London
15 Theobalds Road
Place of Birth
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Raisedin Croydon