Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-10-06
LORD COLERIOeF.
Lite sketch OF the Great English
Ju,ist Now ON a Tour Through
This Country.

Coleridge himself a Judge), OF
Hsaths Court Ottery St. Nary, Dew
onshire, and Mary, eldest daughter Of
the late Rev. Gilbert Buchanan,
LII. d., vicar Of WoOdmansterne and
rector Of Northfeet, Kent. He was
born in the year 1921. He was edu-
Gated at Elton and at BalGol College.
oxford. where he obtained q scholar
ship, and graduated B. A. in 1912 and
N. A. in 1916, up to which year he
had been a Fellow of Exeter College,
1913 He was called TO the bar at the
Middle Temple, November 8, 1886,
aud went on the Western Circuit, OF
which be was for some time the
leader. In 1855 to 1866 he was Re-
corder OF Portsmouth, and was Gre
ated a Queens Counsel and Bencher
Of the Middle Temple in 1861 He
was candidate for the representation
Of Exeter in Parliament. and elected
for that city in July, 1864, and con-
tinued to represent it until No.
vember, 1873. In December,
1868, on the formation OF Mr.. Glad.
stone government, he was appointed
to fill lhe office Of Solicitor General,
when he received the honor OF knights
hood, and in November, 1871, on Sir
Robert Collyer being appointed to
judgeship in the judicial Committee
of the Privy Council, Sir John Duke
Coleridge was appointed to succeed
him as Attorney General. On the
retirement OF Lord Romilly, in 1873,
from the Mastership of the Rolls, Sir
John Coleridge as Attorney General,
though member Of the common law
bar, received the first offer OF the APP
pOintment, but, after mature consider
alton, he declined the Office, which
was conferred upon Sir George Jessel,
the Solicitor General, who was mems
Der Of the Equity Bar.
In 1872, on the resignation OF Lord
Penzance, he was offered the judge
ship Of Probate and Divorce, which
he declined, and secured Sir james
hannen to be appointed Soon alter
ward, however, the death OF Sir
William Boville left the chief ustice-
ship Of the Court Of Common Pleas
at the disposal of the govern
ment, and this high Office was at
Jnce conferred upon Sir John Duke
| Celeridge, who was sworn in as Lord
Chief Justice November 10, 1873
having been previously raised to the
peerage with the title Of Baron Cole
ridge, Of D terry st. Mary. Lord Cole
rige was at one time a contributor tC
the Edinburgh Review and other pc
riodlcals. He married, in 1916, Jane
Fortescue (Sho died in 1879, third
daughter of the Rev. George Turnel
Seymour, of Farringford Hill, Isle o
Wight. Three sons and a daughte
have been born to them-the sons be
, ing Bernard John Seymour Coleridge
born In 1851; Stephen William Buc
hanan Coleridge, born in 1854 AM
+ Gilbert James Duke Ooleridge, borl
. in 1889 and Lady Mildred Mary OI
! the death Of Sir Alexander CockburI
! he was transferred to the Queen
: Bench and became Lord Chief Justic
, of England. In 1876 he received tn
degree of d. G. i from the Universit
n OF Oxford. He is also Fellow Of tn
Royal Society and in 1872 was electe
/. an honorary Fellow OF Exeter College
q Oxford. He has served upon tn
' commissions, whose labors resulted i
most important aud great changes an
!. improvements in the laws Of England
q ! To one OF these he was appointed b
r Lord Derby, to another by Disrael
. both Tories, while he was Liberia
and these appointments show the hig
{ esteem in which he is held, even b
his opponents. Among these commits
sions we're those 10 the city OF Londo
. upon Ritual. upon the Public Schools
! upon the Judicature, Ecclesiastical
| Courts. By his gratuitous, earnes
and enlightened services on thes
commissions, he has left his impress
upon the laws Of the nation.
In Parliament, as a public speaker
Lord Coleridge has always been ma
OF eloquence, fair 10 controversy, an,
showing through all his public AM
private utterances the careful, cul'
tured, conscientious scholar. Indeed
as 70 the claim made by Buckle tina
hewAs bigoted in his prosecution 0
blasphemy, its absurdity could vel
be shown by the recent prose
cutioh LOT Freethinkers il
England, where Lord Coleridge, il
spite of his pronounced High Churcl
opinions, made a most emphatic de
nunciation Of the prosecutions 70
blasphemy Prominent among hi
contributions to light literature wa
the reply TO Buckles attack, whiel
showed the trenchant power Of tn
pen OF the future Chief Justice il
case it was called into use 10 contro
versy. . w
There is in the social life Of Lor,
COleridge much that wins TOR him th
ardent admiration Of all who ar,
brought in contact with his genialty
his culture, his fine accomplishment
as a conversationalist, and his SCUM,
opinions upon men who are prominen
in political, church, literary, or dra
matte life.
Throughout his whole life, a life o
peculiarly significant success, Their
has been that which should make hi
name honorsd and respected on thi
as we'll as the other side Of the broat
Atlantic. True, he has been excep
tionally favored by birth, by ancestry
by all the advantages which com
from wealth and station; but al tn
same time these very advantage
Eight have been TO a weaker man tn
things which would have led to apath
and perhaps ruin. In the case Of IorI
ColeTidge these advantageous circum
stances, by the aid Of his own unoeas
ing labor, made in him a lawyer o
sterling integrity, q wise, far seeing
an honest and 40 upriRht Judge
man whose fully rounded and com
pleted life will stand out before pos
terity as does the matchless marble o
ancient Greece before the admirinI
sculptor OF more modern times.
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