| Authorised form of name | Coleridge; John Duke (1820 - 1894); 1st Baron Coleridge |
| Dates | 1820 - 1894 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Heath Court, Ottery St Mary, Devon, England |
| Date of birth | 03 December 1820 |
| Place of death | His house, 1 Sussex Square, London |
| Date of death | 14 June 1894 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Burial:
Ottery St Mary, Devon |
| Occupation | Barrister |
| Activity | Education:
Eton; Balliol College; Oxford BA (1842); MA (1846)
Career:
Called to the Bar at Middle Temple (1846); Recorder of Portsmouth (1855-1865); QC; Bencher, Middle Temple (1861); Solicitor General (1868-1871); Attorney General (1871-1873); Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas (1873); Privy Councillor (1873); Sergeant-at-law (1874); Lord Chief Justice of England (1880); died of jaundice
Honours:
Kt 1868; Baron 1874 |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 03/05/1877 |
| Relationships | Son of Sir John Taylor Coleridge, who was a nephew of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
References:
Vanity Fair 30 April 1870, 05 March 1887
Notes:
Boase has birth place as 7 Hadlow Street, London |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/48244817 |
| Code | NA6538 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| MC/11/55 | Letter from Baron Coleridge, 1 Sussex Square, to G G [George Gabriel] Stokes, [Secretary of the Royal Society] | 4 May 1877 |
| NLB/5/1089 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to the Right Honorable Lord Coleridge | 4 January 1892 |
| NLB/7/794 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Messrs Robarts, Lubbock & Company | 28 April 1893 |
| EC/1877/01 | Coleridge, John Duke, 1st Baron Coleridge: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| MC/11 | Volume 11 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1877-1879 |
| MS/769/22 | Letter from John Duke Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge, 1 Sussex Square, to the Secretary of the Royal Society [Michael Foster] | 25 November 1881 |