Coleridge, Herbert (1830–1861)

British philologist, born in Hampstead, London. A practising barrister, he studied languages as a hobby. In 1857 he was elected a member of the Philological Society and was put in charge of its planned supplement to the dictionaries of Johnson and Richardson. The project soon developed into a scheme for a completely new dictionary, and Coleridge's Glossarial Index to the Printed English Literature of the Thirteenth Century developed into the great Oxford English Dictionary.