The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-06-15
OBITUARY.
Lord Chief Justice Coieridge, Aged
Seyenty-Three.

Seyenty-Three.
LONDON June IL-Lord Chief Justice
Coleridge is dead. He was unconscious FOR
a few hours before his death, which was
painless. His son Bernard will succeed
II is announced that Baron Russell will
succeed Lord Coleridge as Lord CHEZ
Justice, and that Sir John Ridgby VIII be-
come a lord justice Of appeal In place OF
Solicitor-general. will become Attorney
general and Mr.. Richard q. Haldane. NJ.
p, Solicitor-general.
John Duke, Lord Coleridge. was the eld-
est SON of the late sir John Tavlor Cole
ridge himself a judge) and Mary, eldest
laughter of the Rev. Gilbert Buchanan.
He was born in the year 1871. He was edu-
Gated at Elton and at Ballot College. Ok
ford, where he graduated in 1872. He was
called to the bar in 1916. In 1856 to 1866 he
was recorder of Portsmouth, and was Gre
ated a Queens counsel in 1861. He was
elected for Exeter in Parliament in 1864.
and continued TO represent IL till 1873. In
1868, on the formation of Mr.. Gladstones
government, he was appointed TO MI the
the honor of Hnighthood. and In November,
1871, on Sir Robert Collyer being appointed
of the Privy Council, Sir job Duke Cole
ridge was appointed TO succeed him as
Acknowledgement. On the retirement OF
of the Rolls, Sir John Coleridge, as Attor-
ney-general, though a member of the COM
mon law bar REC the nrsr on reps 81 ,ne
ton, he declined.
In 1872, on the resignation of Lord PEN
zance. he was offered the judgeship OF
| Probate and Divorce, which he declined.
| Soon afterward the death of Sir William
Boville left the chief justiceship OF the
Court OF Common Pleas at the disposal or
the government, and this high office was
l at once conferred on Sir John Duke Cole
ridge. who was sworn In as Lord Chief
4 T-1<f1n NAu q 1879 An4~& kAnn
p ppssiSe nov raised i TO- t having peer 9ssa
with the title Of Baron Cole
ridge Of Ottery 81 Mary: He married,
Three sons and a daughter were born
to them. the sons being Bernard John Sey-
mour Coleridge, Stephen William Buchanan
Coleridge and Gilbert James Duke Cole
ridge. and Lady Mildred May. On the death
of Sir Alexander Cockburn he was trans
ferred to the Queens Bench, and became
Lord Chief Justice of England. In 1876 he
received the degree of =. c. l. from the
University of oxford. He was also a fellow
of the Royal Society, and in 1882 was
was elected an honorary fellow of Exeter
College, oxford. He has served upon vari-
Gus commissions whose labors resulted in
provements in the laws of England. In
1888 he visited America at the invitation OF
the United States Bar Association, great
receptions being rendered him at New
York and Chicago.
Other Deaths.
LOS ANGELES, Cal, June H.-Charles
w. Mead, a w~ell-known resident and bust
ness man, died suddenly of dropsy to-day.
He was formerly general superintendent OF
the Northern Pacific railroad, and one OF
the proprietors of the Omaha smelling
works. He left a card stating that he an
ticipated death from dropsy.
BOSTON. June 1.-THE Rev; F. G. Rob
inson. professor of philosophy in the
University of Chicago, and formerly presl-
dent of Brown University, died at the City
Hospital here last night. He had been in
the hospital for special treatment.