John Taylor Coleridge

English judge (1790–1876)

The Right Honourable

Sir John Taylor Coleridge

Sir John Taylor Coleridge by Henry William Pickersgill.

Justice of the Queen's Bench
In office
26 January 1835 – 14 June 1858
Personal details
Born| (1790-07-09)9 July 1790
Tiverton, Devon, England
Died| 11 February 1876(1876-02-11) (aged 85)
Ottery St Mary, Devon, England
Spouse|

Mary Buchanan

(m. 1818)​

Parent(s)| James Coleridge
Frances Duke Taylor
Education| Eton College
Alma mater| Corpus Christi College, Oxford

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.[1]

## Life

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He was born at Tiverton, Devon, and was educated as a Colleger (King's Scholar) at Eton College, and in 1809 gained a scholarship at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. At Corpus Christi, John Keble became a close friend. Coleridge won the Chancellor's Prize for Latin verse in 1810, graduated first-class in classics in 1812, won the prizes for English and Latin essays in 1813 (as Keble had done in 1811), and became a Vinerian Scholar and a fellow of Exeter College.[2] In 1819 he was called to the bar at the Middle Temple and practised for some years on the western circuit.[1]

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,[3] 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.[1]

Coleridge was a member of the Canterbury Association from 24 June 1851.[4]

## Leading cases as judge

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* Stockdale v. Hansard

## Family

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John married Mary Buchanan at St Peter's, Woodmansterne, Surrey, in 1818; her father, Gilbert Buchanan, was then rector there.[5] They had the following children:

* Mary Dorothy Frances Coleridge (1819), died in infancy
* John Duke Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge (1820–1894), Lord Chief Justice
* Henry James Coleridge (1822–1893), Catholic convert, Jesuit, religious writer
* Mary Frances Keble Coleridge (1824–1898)
* Alethea Buchanan Coleridge (1826–1909), married in 1849 John Fielder Mackarness, Bishop of Oxford
* Frederick William Coleridge (1829–1843)

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.[1]

## Notes

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1. ^ a b c d Chisholm 1911.
2. ^ Hamilton, J. A. (1887). "Coleridge, John Taylor" . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 11\. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
3. ^ "Review of Memoir of the Rev. John Keble, M.A. by J. T. Coleridge". The Quarterly Review. 127: 98–134. July 1869.
4. ^ 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.
5. ^ Busfield D.W. (1981), St Peter's Woodmansterne Registers 1566-1837

## References

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* This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Coleridge, Sir John Taylor". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 6 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 678.

## External links

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* Works by or about John Taylor Coleridge at Wikisource
* "Archival material relating to John Taylor Coleridge". UK National Archives.

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Coleridge family tree

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(1718–1781)| | Ann Bowden[i]
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Luke Herman Coleridge[ii]
(1765–1790)| | | | Frances Duke Taylor
(1760–1838)| | James Coleridge
(1759–1836)| | | | | | Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(1772–1834)| | Sara Fricker
(1770–1845)|
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William Hart Coleridge[ii]
(1789–1849)| | | Francis George Coleridge
(1794–1854)| | Edward Coleridge
(1800–1883)| | Henry Nelson Coleridge[iii]
(1798–1843)| | Sara Coleridge[iii]
(1802–1852)| | Hartley Coleridge
(1796–1849)| | Derwent Coleridge
(1800–1883)| |

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Henry James Coleridge
(1822–1893)| | | Alethea Coleridge
(1827–1909)| | John Mackarness
(1820–1889)| | | Charles Edward Coleridge
(1827–1875)| | Herbert Coleridge
(1830–1861)| | Christabel Rose Coleridge
(1843–1921)| | Ernest Hartley Coleridge
(1846–1920)

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| | John Coleridge
(1820–1894)| | | | | | | | | | Francis James Coleridge
(1825–1862)| | Arthur Duke Coleridge
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Stephen Coleridge
(1854–1936)| | Bernard Coleridge
(1851–1927)| | Mary Mackarness
(1851–1940)| | Percy Duke Coleridge
(1850–1881)| | Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
(1861–1907)|

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| | Jessie Alethea Mackarness
(1881–1957)| | Geoffrey Coleridge
(1877–1955)| | | | John Coleridge
(1878–1951)| |

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| | | | Richard Coleridge
(1905–1984)| | Cecilia Fisher
(1909–1991)| | Sylvia Coleridge
(1909–1986)|

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| | | | | | William Coleridge
(born 1937)|

Notes:

1. ^ a b Srinivasan, Archana (2004). Eminent English Writers. Sura Books. p. 12\. ISBN 9788174785299.
2. ^ a b This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wroth, Warwick William (1887). "Coleridge, William Hart". In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 11\. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
3. ^ a b Barbeau, Jeffrey W. (2014). Sara Coleridge: Her Life and Thought. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781137430854.

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