Arthur Coleridge

Arthur Duke Coleridge (baptised, 1 February 1830 – 29 October 1913) was a nineteenth-century English lawyer who, as an amateur musician with influential connections, was the founder of The Bach Choir and the man who introduced the Mass in B minor by Johann Sebastian Bach to the English concert repertoire.[1] He was also a cricketer who played first-class cricket for Cambridge University in 1850.[2] He was born at Ottery St Mary, Devon and died at South Kensington, London.

  1. ^ "Coleridge, Arthur Duke (CLRG849AD)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  2. ^ "Arthur Coleridge". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 11 May 2014.