John Duke Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge
1820–94
Judge. Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, 1843–6. Called to the bar, 1846; recorder of Portsmouth, 1855–66. Liberal MP for Exeter, 1865–73. Solicitor-general, 1868–71; attorney-general, 1871–3; chief justice of the common pleas, 1873–80; lord chief justice of England, 1880–94. Anti-vivisectionist. Knighted, 1868. Created baron, 1873.
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Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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