William Coleridge, 5th Baron Coleridge

William Duke Coleridge, 5th Baron Coleridge, DL (18 June 1937 – 19 November 2025) was a British hereditary peer who lived in Ottery St Mary in Devon, England.

Biography The son of Richard Coleridge, 4th Baron Coleridge, Coleridge was born on 18 June 1937 in Ottery St Mary. He was educated at Eton College in Berkshire, England, and at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in Berkshire. He served as an officer in the Coldstream Guards in Kenya between 1961 and 1963. During that posting he and two co-drivers won the East African Safari Rally in competition with 77 other cars.

Coleridge died from complications of a fall on 19 November 2025, at the age of 88.

The ancestral home is The Chanter's House in Ottery St Mary in Devon. Coleridge was the last family member to live there because the increasing costs of maintaining the property caused the family trust in October 2006 to put the property up for sale and auction the contents. In 1999, Coleridge had attempted to lease part of the family estate in order to raise money to prevent the sale.