John Taylor Coleridge (1790 - 1876)

Born 9 Jul 1790 in Tiverton

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Died 11 Feb 1876 at age 85 in Heath's Court, Ottery St. Mary

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Biography

educated at Eton; Scholar of Corpus Christi; Fellow of Exeter, called to the Bar in 1819; in 1835 was appointed one of the Judges of the King's Bench; created D.C.L. in 1853.

Foss (see below) writes:

[...] John Taylor Coleridge was bom at Tiverton on July 9, 1790. His grandfather was vicar of the parish of Ottery St. Mary in Devonshire, and master of the grammar school there. His father was Captain James Coleridge, who retired from the army soon after his marriage with Frances Duke Taylor, the daughter of one of the coheiresses of the family of Duke of Otterton and Power Hayes, one of the most ancient in the county of Devon. After receiving an excellent training from his uncle, the Rev. George Coleridge, then master of the school at Ottery St. Mary, young Coleridge, in June 1803, went to Eton, where he acquired a considerable reputation. [...]

Sources

• Wikipedia:John_Taylor_Coleridge
• Oxford Historical Society (The Oxford Historical Society, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1892) Vol. 22: "Reminiscences of Oxford by Oxford Men. 1559-1850", Page 247-53
• Biographia juridica : a biographical dictionary of the judges of England from the conquest to the present time, 1066-1870 by Edward Foss (page 181)