FDA-D.677-2012
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Object number
FDA-D.677-2012
Object type
Identification
Title
Coleridge House on Keate’s Lane, Eton
Keate's Lane, Looking West
Coleridge House in Keate's Lane, now demolished
Keate's Lane, Looking West
Coleridge House in Keate's Lane, now demolished
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
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Comments
Coleridge House was named after the Lower Master and Fellow, the Rev. Edward Coleridge (1800–1883), who ran the boarding house from 1826. It was demolished in 1937 and the building we see today is the extension to Hawtrey House that replaced it. Residents of Coleridge House included British Prime Minister Arthur James Balfour (1848–1930) and, according to a correspondent writing to the Eton College Chronicle in 1954, a poltergeist ’whose habit was to throw boys out of bed in the middle of the night’.
Other number
CL 245
Description
Content (place)
Eton
Dimensions
height (actual size): 353mm
width (actual size): 330mm
width (actual size): 330mm
Materials & techniques note
Pencil and watercolour on paper
Production
Person
Davison, Nora, 1855 - 1950 (Artist)
Date
1913-1937
History and association
Object history note
Provenance: Collection of Mrs E.M. Davson; by whom presented to Eton College in 1978
Exhibited: ‘A Woman’s View: Nora Davison’s watercolours of Eton’, Verey Gallery, Eton College, 23 May to 28 September 2025 (catalogue number 22)
Exhibited: ‘A Woman’s View: Nora Davison’s watercolours of Eton’, Verey Gallery, Eton College, 23 May to 28 September 2025 (catalogue number 22)
