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SIR JOHN TAYLOR COLERIDGE (1790-1876)

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 678 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:JOHN See also:TAYLOR See also:COLERIDGE (1790-1876)  , See also:English See also:judge, the second son of See also:Captain See also:James See also:Coleridge and See also:nephew of the poet S . T . Coleridge, was See also:born at See also:Tiverton, See also:Devon, and was educated at Corpus Christi See also:College, See also:Oxford, where he had a brilliant career . He graduated in 1812 and was soon after made a See also:fellow of See also:Exeter; in 1819 he was called to the See also:bar at the See also:Middle See also:Temple and practised for some years on the western See also:circuit . In 1824, on See also:Gifford's retirement, he assumed the editorship of the Quarterly See also:Review, resigning it a See also:year afterwards in favour of See also:Lockhart . In 1825 he published his excellent edition of See also:Blackstone's Commentaries, and in 1832 he was made a See also:serjeant-at-See also:law and See also:recorder of Exeter . In 1835 he was appointed one of the See also:judges of the See also:king's See also:bench . In 1852 his university created him a D.C.L., and in 1858 he resigned his judgeship, and was made a member of the privy See also:council . In 1869, although in extreme old See also:age, he produced his pleasant Memoir of the Rev . See also:John See also:Keble, whose friend he had been since their college days, a third edition of which was issued within a year . He died on the 11th of See also:February 1876 at Ottery St See also:Mary, Devon, leaving two sons and a daughter; the eldest son, John See also:Duke, 1st See also:Baron Coleridge (q.v.), became See also:lord See also:chief See also:justice of See also:England; the second son, See also:Henry James (1822-1893), See also:left the See also:Anglican for the See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:church in 1852, and became well-known as a Jesuit divine, editor of The See also:Month, and author of numerous theological See also:works . See also:Sir John See also:Taylor Coleridge's See also:brothers, James Duke and Henry See also:Nelson (See also:husband of Sara Coleridge), are referred to in other articles; his See also:brother See also:Francis See also:George was the See also:father of See also:Arthur Duke Coleridge (b .

1830), clerk of assizes on the midland circuit and author of See also:

Eton in the Forties, whose daughter Mary E . Coleridge (1861–1907) became a well-known writer of fiction .

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