Vincent Stuckey Stratton Coles

COLES, Vincent Stuckey Stratton. b. Shepton Beauchamp, Somerset, 27 March 1845; d. Shepton Beauchamp, 9 June 1929. He was the son of the rector of Shepton Beauchamp. He was educated at Eton College, where he befriended Digby Mackworth Dolben, who died young, and Robert Bridges*, and Archibald Philip Primrose, fifth Earl of Rosebery (later Prime Minister). He entered Balliol College in 1864, and graduated with a third-class degree in 1868. He then went to Cuddesdon Theological College in Oxfordshire, and became a close associate of the Tractarian theologian Henry Parry Liddon (later a celebrated Canon of St Paul’s). Coles was ordained deacon at Winchester by Bishop Samuel Wilberforce in...