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370 COLERAINE and was bur. at Driffield afsd., M.I., when his Peerage became extinct.{^) Will dat. lo Jan. 1823, pr. 3 Aug. 1824, by his widow and universal legatee. She d. 27 Dec. 1 846, in Ridgemount Place, Hampstead Rd., Midx., aged 70. Will, leaving all her property (save ;^2o) to "John Greenwood Hanger, Esq.," and Mary, his wife, dat. 24 Dec. 1846, pr. 3 Feb. 1847. COLERIDGE OF OTTERY ST. MARY BARONY. I. John Duke Coleridge, ist s. of the Rt. Hon. Sir John Taylor ColeridgEjC") of Heath's Court, in Ottery I. 1874. St. Mary, Devon, many years (1835-58) one of the Justices of the Court of the King's Bench, by Mary, da. of the Rev. Gilbert Buchanan, D.D., Vicar of Woodmansterne, Surrey. He was b. 3 Dec. 1820, at 7 Hadlow Str., London; ed. at Eton, 1831-39; and at Balliol Coll. Oxford, of which he was a scholar; matric, 29 Nov. 1838, B.A., 1842; Pres. of the Oxford Union Soc. i843;(') Fellow of Exeter Coll. Oxford, 1843-46; M.A., 1846; Barrister (Mid. Temple), 1846; Recorder of Portsmouth, 1855-65; Q.C. and Bencher of the Middle Temple, 1861 ; M.P. (Liberal) for Exeter, 1865-73; Solicitor Gen., 1868-71 ; knighted, 12 Dec. 1868; Attorney Gen., 1871-73; Lord Ch. Justice of the Common Pleas, 1873, and P.C. 12 Dec. 1873; Serjeant at law Jan. 1874 On 10 Jan. 1874, he was cr. BARON COLERIDGE OF OTTERY ST. MARY, Devon. F.R.S. 3 May, and D.C.L., Oxford, 13 June 1877. O" the death of Chief Justice Cockburn, he was, 29 Nov. 1880, appointed Lord Chief Justice of England,(^) in which office the powers and privileges of Cruickshank. The best modern account of him is in Lewis Melville's Beaux of the Regency^ and an interesting paper about him called Memoin of an eccentric noblemany by C. J. Bruce Angier, was published some years ago. V.G. (^) According to his M.I. he was "a practical Christian, as far as his frail nature did allow him so to be." He was a violent Whig, but never sat in either House of Pari. On his death the peerage was offered by George IV to Arthur Vansittart, of Shottesbroke Hall, Berks, who declined it. V.G. It was used as one of the ex- tinctions required (under the Act of Union) for the creation, in 1826, of the Barony of FitzGerald and Vesey. C') This exemplary judge, who d. 11 Feb. 1876, aged 85, was nephew of Samuel Taylor Coleridge [h. 1772; d. 1834), the famous poet. He was br.-in- law (wife's brother) to a judge of like eminence and virtue, viv.. the Rt. Hon. Sir John Patteson, one of the Justices of the Court of King's Bench (1830-52), who d. 28 June i86i, aged 71. if) For a list of peers who have been presidents of the Union Soc. of Oxford or of Cambridge, see vol. iv, Appendix F. V.G. (^) In Block's Table of the Judges, temp. Victoria, the office of " Lord Chief Justice of England" is (wrongly) attributed to Denman, Campbell, and Cockburn, who held the office of Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench during that reign. These three were appointed (1832, 1850, and 1859 respectively) under the same style, viz. as " Chief Justice to hold Pleas before us," a style which, properly enough, may be considered as equivalent to " Chief Justice of the (King's, or) Queen's Bench," but not to that of " Justiciarius Anglia." A change of style, but not, however, of rank