News about Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Jonathan Dimbleby (left), a broadcaster and royal biographer, has told how motor neurone disease gradually killed Nicholas (top right) on the eve of the unveiling of a groundbreaking study on assisted suicide. Mr Dimbleby, the British Prime Minister, called for a free vote on reforming the legislation in the forthcoming parliament, as MPs prepare to publish a study into assisted dying on Thursday. According to Dignitas, the not-for-profit group assisting patients with a'self-determined death of life,' there were 1,528 members from Great Britain at the end of 2022. This has risen from 821 in 2012 to 821 in 2012. Dignitas' death in 2022 killed 33 people from the United Kingdom, up on 23 people the year before.

Answers to Correspondents: QUESTION Did Humphry Davy administer laughing gas to the audience at his lectures? Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829), a renowned chemist and entrepreneur, was a heralded scientist and chemist. He was the first person to describe nitrous oxide's properties, which are still widely used in anaesthesia. However, last year, it became a Class C drug for recreational use. The gas stimulated Davy and his companions, resulting in euphoria and heightened curiosity. The word 'laughing gas' was coined by him specifically.

Thomas Poole House was named after its wealthy owner, who was friends with the pair and even inspired some of their art. A blue plaque in Nether Stowey, Somerset, commemorating the wealthy farmer and tanner's friendship with the two English Romantic poets. The original owners of Poole's bookroom have maintained the building's, which was highlighted in Nikolaus Pevsner's Buildings of England, and his Grade II listed home has been well maintained over the years.

According to Tom Chesshyre, Alfred Wainwright once compared Coniston in the southern Lake District to Zermatt way up in the Swiss Alps. After visiting, he can see why, remarking that there is a trace of truth to the great hiking scribe's fanciful comparison.

Beryl Purdy, an 86-year-old village stalwart, is suspected of murdering her grandmother in Somerset's country home. David Parish, 36, of no fixed address, is suspected of killing her 86-year-old village stalwart Beryl Purdy. Bez, a churchwarden, was discovered'slumped on the ground in a pool of blood' in her Broomfield home on March 27. The Mental Health Act had originally been sectioned off, but charges were brought back on Tuesday. He was supposed to appear in Taunton Magistrates' Court today charged with the grandmother's murder.

CRAIG BROWN: A mild-mannered man carried a miniature portrait of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and four tiny pieces of old paper folded over into envelopes on Sunday at the Antiques Roadshow. These envelopes were stamped with the names of three Romantic writers - William Wordsworth, Robert Southey, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. A few wisps of the poet's hair were included in each envelope: keepsakes passed down from generation to generation were tucked into each envelope. Both envelopes were marked S. T. Coleridge, the first of which had dark hair from his youth and the second with snowy-white hair, which was missing from his scalp at his burial.

During Sunday's episode of the Antiques Roadshow, a rather unusual bygone was valued. Members of the public in Cornwall flocked with many treasured items in the hopes of being told they were in possession of something worth a fortune. However, it was items that once belonged to late poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordworth, and Robert Southey that caught the attention of one of the experts.

An 86-year-old grandmother died in her own home, according to police. Bez Purdy (left) a church warden, was found bludgeoned to death at her country home, where police had been alerted to a home invasion that was still in progress. The perpetrator was identified as a missing person by Avon and Somerset Police before Mrs Purdy was discovered dead at her house in Broomfield, near Taunton. According to a police spokesperson, the detained man in his 30s was missing from a mental health unit, but not a secure mental health unit.

Beryl Purdy, a 'highly respected' church warden, is alleged to have been assaulted inside her farmhouse. The 86-year-old grandmother was discovered dead at her country house, where police had been alerted to a robbery that had taken place. According to an eye witness, she had 'clearly been struck hard across the head' and was discovered'slumped on the ground and not moving in a pool of blood.' A local man was arrested in connection with the shooting, sectioned and taken to a secure mental health center.

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Patrick McDermott, 48, of San Pedro, California, joined 22 others for an overnight sea fishing trip one night. He never recovered. His wallet and backpack were discovered onboard, and his car was abandoned at the marina. McDermott had enough trouble to explain his disappearance. Chance is the bankrupt and he had no assets other than a clapped-out Toyota. Men like McDermott are hardly unusual - in fact, the US government has a word for them: deadbeat dads. But there was one extraordinary thing about this man. He had been dating Hollywood actress Olivia Newton-John for nearly nine years, Penniless as he was. Friends characterized her as 'cut up' and 'devastated' as she vanished.