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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Robbie Smith

Londoner’s Diary: Gift to Coleridge Trust in drive to save poet’s grave

Safeguarding Coleridge’s legacy: Nicholas Coleridge is a patron of the Trust

(Picture: Dave Benett/Getty Images for V&A)

THE FIGHT to save poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Highgate grave from “benign neglect” has entered a new phase, The Londoner has learnt, following a £20,000 donation to the trust concerned.

An unnamed “local donor with a keen interest” in Coleridge, who is entombed beneath St Michael’s Church in Highgate, recently made the financial gift to the Coleridge Trust.

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