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The case of the patched trousers: was Coleridge-Taylor impoverished as a student?
There has been quite a debate about whether Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was, or was not, financially comfortable as a child and young man. Jeffrey Green‘s meticulous research, for instance, has established that Coleridge-Taylor’s grandfather / father-figure, Benjamin Holmans, was a man of significant … Continue reading
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Foundation 