Bernard Coleridge, 2nd Baron Coleridge

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 House of Commons from 1885 until 1894 when he inherited his peerage.

"The Silver Voiced", caricature by Spy from 1909.

Biography

Coleridge was the eldest son of John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge, Lord Chief Justice of England, and Jane Fortescue Seymour. His grandfather, John Taylor Coleridge, was the nephew of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Oxford. He was called to the bar at Middle Temple in 1877.^[1]

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.^[2] He was the first peer to regularly practice at the bar.

Coleridge became a QC in 1892 and served as a Judge of the High Court of Justice from 1907 to 1923.

Lord Coleridge married Mary Alethea Mackarness, daughter of John Fielder Mackarness (Bishop of Oxford), on 3 August 1876. They had three children, one son and two daughters. He died in September 1927, in Honiton, Devon, aged 76, and was succeeded in the barony by his only son Geoffrey.

Selected bibliography

The Story of a Devonshire House (1905)
This for Remembrance (1925)

Arms

Coat of arms of Bernard Coleridge, 2nd Baron Coleridge
	Crest A crucifix Or rising from an otter as in the arms. Escutcheon Argent on a mount Vert in base an otter Proper; a chief Gules charged with a dove of the field between two crosses patée fitchée Or. Supporters Dexter an otter Proper, gorged with a garland of roses Gules leaved Vert, sinister a lion sable gorged as the former.^[3]

References

^ Debretts Guide to the House of Commons 1886
^ Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1974]. British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 183. ISBN 0-900178-27-2.
^ Debrett's Peerage. 1878.

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

External links

Works by or about Bernard Coleridge, 2nd Baron Coleridge at the Internet Archive
Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Bernard Coleridge

Parliament of the United Kingdom
New constituency	Member of Parliament for Sheffield Attercliffe 1885–1894	Succeeded by J. Batty Langley
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by John Duke Coleridge	Baron Coleridge 1894–1927	Succeeded by Geoffrey Duke Coleridge

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[1] Debretts Guide to the House of Commons 1886

[craig1885-1918-2] Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1974]. British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 183. ISBN 0-900178-27-2.

[3] Debrett's Peerage. 1878.

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