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John Duke Coleridge

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John Duke Coleridge

Birth
St Pancras, London Borough of Camden, Greater London, England
Death
14 Jun 1894 (aged 73)
Bayswater, City of Westminster, Greater London, England
Burial
Ottery St Mary, East Devon District, Devon, England Add to Map
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John Duke Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge, English judge and politician. He was the great-nephew of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

He was the first child of the Right Honourable Sir John Taylor Coleridge, of Ottery St Mary, Devon, and Mary Buchanan, 2nd daughter of the Rev. Gilbert Albert Buchanan, vicar of Woodmansterne Surrey, and rector of Northfleet, Kent.

On August 11, 1846 he married Jane Fortescue Seymour, 3rd daughter of the Revd George Turner Seymour, of Farringford Hill, Freshwater Isle of Wight; died 1878. His second marriage was in 1885 to Amy Augusta Jackson, 1st daughter of Henry Baring Lawford Jackson of the Bengal civil service.

He attended Eton and graduated from Balliol College Oxford. His brother, Rev. Henry James Coleridge converted in 1852 to the church of Rome and became a Jesuit priest.
John Duke Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge, English judge and politician. He was the great-nephew of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

He was the first child of the Right Honourable Sir John Taylor Coleridge, of Ottery St Mary, Devon, and Mary Buchanan, 2nd daughter of the Rev. Gilbert Albert Buchanan, vicar of Woodmansterne Surrey, and rector of Northfleet, Kent.

On August 11, 1846 he married Jane Fortescue Seymour, 3rd daughter of the Revd George Turner Seymour, of Farringford Hill, Freshwater Isle of Wight; died 1878. His second marriage was in 1885 to Amy Augusta Jackson, 1st daughter of Henry Baring Lawford Jackson of the Bengal civil service.

He attended Eton and graduated from Balliol College Oxford. His brother, Rev. Henry James Coleridge converted in 1852 to the church of Rome and became a Jesuit priest.


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