Bernard Coleridge, 2nd Baron Coleridge

British lawyer, judge and Liberal politician

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.

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 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
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Preceded by John Duke Coleridge	Baron Coleridge 1894–1927	Succeeded by Geoffrey Duke Coleridge

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Coleridge family tree

John Coleridge^[i]
(1718–1781)

Ann Bowden^[i]
(1727–1809)

Luke Herman Coleridge^[ii]
(1765–1790)

Frances Duke Taylor
(1760–1838)

James Coleridge
(1759–1836)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(1772–1834)

Sara Fricker
(1770–1845)

William Hart Coleridge^[ii]
(1789–1849)

Francis George Coleridge
(1794–1854)

Edward Coleridge
(1800–1883)

Henry Nelson Coleridge^[iii]
(1798–1843)

Sara Coleridge^[iii]
(1802–1852)

Hartley Coleridge
(1796–1849)

Derwent Coleridge
(1800–1883)

John Taylor Coleridge
(1790–1876)

Henry James Coleridge
(1822–1893)

Alethea Coleridge
(1827–1909)

John Mackarness
(1820–1889)

Charles Edward Coleridge
(1827–1875)

Herbert Coleridge
(1830–1861)

Christabel Rose Coleridge
(1843–1921)

Ernest Hartley Coleridge
(1846–1920)

John Coleridge
(1820–1894)

Francis James Coleridge
(1825–1862)

Arthur Duke Coleridge
(1830–1913)

Stephen Coleridge
(1854–1936)

Bernard Coleridge
(1851–1927)

Mary Mackarness
(1851–1940)

Percy Duke Coleridge
(1850–1881)

Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
(1861–1907)

Jessie Alethea Mackarness
(1881–1957)

Geoffrey Coleridge
(1877–1955)

John Coleridge
(1878–1951)

Richard Coleridge
(1905–1984)

Cecilia Fisher
(1909–1991)

Sylvia Coleridge
(1909–1986)

William Coleridge
(born 1937)

Notes:

^ ^a ^b Srinivasan, Archana (2004). Eminent English Writers. Sura Books. p. 12. ISBN 9788174785299.
^ ^a ^b This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wroth, Warwick William (1887). "Coleridge, William Hart". In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 11. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
^ ^a ^b Barbeau, Jeffrey W. (2014). Sara Coleridge: Her Life and Thought. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781137430854.

Family tree of the Coleridge family

Mackarness family tree

John Mackarness
(1794–1870)

Catharine Coxhead
(1793–1878)

Alethea Coleridge
(1827–1909)

John Fielder Mackarness
(1820–1889)

George Richard Mackarness
(1823–1883)

Mary Anne Young
(1824–1873)

Henry Smith Mackarness
(1827–1868)

Matilda Anne Planché
(1825–1881)

Charles Coleridge Mackarness
(1850–1918)

Mary Mackarness
(1851–1940)

Bernard Coleridge
(1851–1927)

Frederick Michael
Coleridge Mackarness
(1854–1920)

George Evelyn Mackarness
(1851–1896)

Maria Graham Campbell
(1859–1890)

Charles Mackarness

Geoffrey Duke Coleridge
(1877–1955)

Jessie Alethea Mackarness
(1881–1957)

A.E.K. Cull
(d.1968)

Ursula Edith Kate Mackarness
(1895–?)

Cecilia Fisher
(1909–1991)

Richard Duke Coleridge
(1905–1984)

William F. Brodnax III
(1931–2001)

Marie-Louise Cull

George Bellew
(1899–1993)

Ursula Kennard Cull
(d.1994)

William Coleridge, Baron
(born 1937)

Eric Brodnax
(born 1964)

Richard George Bellew
(born 1936)

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Family tree of the Mackarness family

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