Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Coleridge, John Duke

by Joseph Foster

Coleridge, John Duke, 1s. John Taylor, of London, equitis. Balliol Coll., matric. 29 Nov., 1838, aged 17, B.A. 1842; fellow Exeter Coll. 1843-6, hon. fellow 1882, M.A. 1846, created D.C.L. 13 June, 1877, Lord Chief Justice of England 1880, Chief Justice Common Pleas 1875 to Nov., 1880, P.C. 1873, created Baron Coleridge 10 Jan., 1874, of the Middle Temple, bar.-at-law 1846, Q.C. and a bencher 1861, serj.-at-law 1873, recorder of Portsmouth 1855-65, solicitor-general 1868-71, knighted 1868, attorney-general 1871-3, M.P. Exeter 1865-73. See Foster's Peerage.