Coleridge, LORD.

Coleridge, LORD. John Duke Coleridge (eldest son of Sir John Taylor Coleridge, the great poet's nephew, and himself the biographer of Keble) was born in 1821, and educated at Eton and Oxford, was called to the bar in 1847, and was for some years leader of the western circuit. Appointed recorder of Portsmouth in 1855, he took silk in 1861, and from 1865 to 1873 represented Exeter in parliament. He was successively Solicitor-general (1868), Attorney-general (1871), Chief-justice of the Common Pleas (1873), and (1880) Lord Chief-justice. An occasional contributor to the reviews, and a man of exceptional culture and polished eloquence, he died 14th June 1894.