Person    | Male  Born 15/8/1875  Died 1/9/1912

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

Categories: Music / songs, Race Issues

Composer. Born 15 Theobalds Road, of a mixed race couple, his father being a Sierra Leonean Creole, and brought up in Croydon. His surname was Taylor and he was given the names Samuel Coleridge in honour of the poet. He later inserted the hyphen himself. 'Hiawatha's Wedding Feast' (part of the choral work 'Song of Hiawatha'), was first performed in 1898 and became immensely successful in his lifetime. He named his son, born 1900, Hiawatha. Actively involved in promoting the cause of black people worldwide. Died aged 37 of pneumonia at home, Aldwick, St Leonard's Road, Croydon. More information at Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Collective.

This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

Commemorated ati

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

Samuel Coleridge Taylor, 1875 - 1912, composer of the "Song of Hiawatha" live...

Read More

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor - Croydon

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor 1875 - 1912 composer, lived and died here. Nubian Jak...

Read More

Other Subjects

Peter Warlock

Peter Warlock

Born The Savoy Hotel, as Philip Arnold Heseltine. Peter Warlock was his pseudonym. Journalist, music critic and composer. His music was heavily influenced by Elizabethan and Celtic culture. Influen...

Person, Journalism / Publishing, Music / songs, Wales

2 memorials
Jessie Matthews, OBE

Jessie Matthews, OBE

Actor, singer and dancer. Born into a large family in Berwick Street.  Made her name in theatre and in the 30's was Britain's favourite musical film star.  Post-war her career flagged but in 1963 s...

Person, Cinema, Dance, Music / songs, Theatre, TV & Radio

2 memorials
Thomas Tiplady

Thomas Tiplady

Born Yorkshire. Raised as a Methodist. Became a minister in the East End, a chaplain in WW1. Became Superintendent of the Lambeth Mission in London in 1922, and was there 32 years. Wrote many hymns...

Person, Cinema, Music / songs, Religion

1 memorial
Frédéric Chopin

Frédéric Chopin

Composer. Born Zelazowa Wola, Poland of a French emigrant father and Polish mother. Left Poland aged 20, never to return. Despite his long romantic liaison with novelist George Sand (Aurore Dudevan...

Person, Music / songs, Seriously Famous, France, Poland

3 memorials
Jerome Kern

Jerome Kern

Composer. Born Jerome David Kern at Sutton Place, New York City. Studied music in New York and Heidelberg. He worked his theatrical apprenticeship in New York and London. His first complete score f...

Person, Music / songs, Seriously Famous, Germany, USA

1 memorial