Do we reall y know Samuel ColeridgeTaylor?

by Jeffrey Green

Talk for the BASA (Black & Asian Studies Association) Conference, London, 27 June 2009

Let’s remind ourselves what everybody knows about Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, the composer. He was bom in central London in August 1875. He spent his childhood there while his African father Dr D. P. H. Taylor worked in Croydon. Faced with racism by his patients. Dr Taylor returned to Sierra Leone where he died. The boy’s mother, Alice, remarried and with her railway worker husband George Evans they all moved to Crovdon. The choirmaster at his church, a Colonel Walters, encouraged him and arranged for him to study, aged 15, at the Royal College of Music

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