John Taylor Coleridge
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Sir John Taylor Coleridge (9 July 1790 – 11 February 1876) was an English judge, the second son of Captain James Coleridge and nephew of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Life
He was born at Tiverton, Devon, and was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he had a reputedly brilliant career. He graduated in 1812, became a Vinerian Scholar and was soon after made a fellow of Exeter College. In 1819 he was called to the bar at the Middle Temple and practised for some years on the western circuit.
In 1824, on William Gifford's retirement, he assumed the editorship of the Quarterly Review, resigning it a year afterwards in favour of John Gibson Lockhart. In 1825 he published a well regarded edition of William Blackstone's Commentaries, and in 1832 he was made a serjeant-at-law and recorder of Exeter. In 1835 he was appointed one of the judges of the King's Bench. In 1852 his university created him a DCL, and in 1858 he resigned his judgeship, and was made a member of the Privy Council, entitling him to sit on the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. In 1869, he produced his Memoir of the Rev. John Keble,[1] whose friend he had been since their college days, a third edition of which was issued within a year. He died at Ottery St. Mary, Devon, leaving two sons and two daughters.
Coleridge was a member of the Canterbury Association from 24 June 1851.[2]
Leading cases as judge
Family
His eldest son, John Duke Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge, became Lord Chief Justice of England. The second son, Henry James Coleridge (1822–1893), left the Anglican for the Roman Catholic church in 1852, and became well known as a Jesuit divine, editor of The Month, and author of numerous theological works. Sir John Taylor Coleridge's brothers were James Duke Coleridge and Henry Nelson Coleridge, the latter the husband of Sara Coleridge. His brother Francis George was the father of Arthur Duke Coleridge (born 1830), clerk of assizes on the Midland circuit and author of Eton in the Forties and whose daughter Mary E. Coleridge became a well-known writer of fiction.
Notes
- ^ "Review of Memoir of the Rev. John Keble, M.A. by J. T. Coleridge". The Quarterly Review. 127: 98–134. July 1869.
- ^ Blain, Rev. Michael (2007). The Canterbury Association (1848-1852): A Study of Its Members' Connections (PDF). Christchurch: Project Canterbury. pp. 23–24. Retrieved 20 March 2013.
References
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Coleridge, Sir John Taylor". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 6 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 678. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
External links
Works by or about John Taylor Coleridge at Wikisource
- "Archival material relating to John Taylor Coleridge". UK National Archives.
- 1790 births
- 1876 deaths
- People from Tiverton, Devon
- English barristers
- Justices of the King's Bench
- Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Oxford
- Coleridge family
- Fellows of Exeter College, Oxford
- Serjeants-at-law (England)
- Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom
- Members of the Canterbury Association
- Members of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council