Bernard John Seymour Coleridge, 2nd Baron Coleridge (19 August 1851 – 4 September 1927) was a British lawyer, judge, and Liberal politician who sat in the

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from 1885 until 1894 when he inherited his

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Biography

Coleridge was the eldest son of

John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge John Duke Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge (3 December 1820 – 14 June 1894) was an English lawyer, judge and Liberal politician. He held the posts, in turn, of Solicitor-General for England, Attorney-General for England, Chief Justice of the ...

, Lord Chief Justice of England, and Jane Fortescue Seymour. His grandfather,

John Taylor Coleridge 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. Life He was born at Tiverton, Devon, and was educated as a Colleger ( ...

, was the nephew of the poet

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. He was educated at Eton and

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. He was called to the bar at

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in 1877.Debretts Guide to the House of Commons 1886
/ref> Coleridge was elected member of parliament for Sheffield Attercliffe in the 1885 general election and held the seat until 1894 when he succeeded his father as second Baron Coleridge. He was the first peer to regularly practice at the bar. Coleridge became a QC in 1892 and served as a Judge of the

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from 1907 to 1923. Lord Coleridge married Mary Alethea Mackarness, daughter of John Fielder Mackarness (

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), on 3 August 1876. They had three children, one son and two daughters. He died in September 1927, in

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, aged 76, and was succeeded in the barony by his only son Geoffrey.

Selected bibliography

*''The Story of a Devonshire House.'' London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1905. *''This for Remembrance.'' London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1925.

Arms

References

*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.

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