COLERAINE — COLERIDGE. 331 time to reading, and was the author of several pamphlets. He also published his Life, adventures and opinion s.'*) Hem before Jan. 1823, Mary Aune Kiitherine, da. of (— ). lie (/. s.p. 31 March 1874, near Regent's Park, Midx., aged 73, when the peerage became extinct. Will dut. 10 Jan. 1823, pr. 3 Aug. 1824, by his widow and universal legatee. She d. 27 Dec. 1846, in Ridgemonnt Place, Hampstead Road, Midx., aged 70. Will, leaving all her property (save £20) to "John Greenwood Hanger, Esq.," aud Mary, his wife, dat. 24 Dec. 1846, pr. 3 Feb. 1847. COLEEIPGE OF OTTEEY ST. MAEY. Barony. 1. "The Et. Hon. Sir Jorar Duke Coleridge, Knt., T 1874 Chief Justice of H.M.'s Court of Common Pleas," was, on 10 Jan. 1874, or. BARON COLERIDGE OF OTTERY ST. MARY, co. Devon, He was 1st s. of the Rt. Hon. Sir John Taylor Coleridge/ 11 ) of Heath's Court, in Ottery St. Mary afsd., many years (1836-58) one of the Justices of the Court of the King's Bench, by Mary, da. of the Rev. Gilbert Buchanan, D.D., Vicar of Woodmansterne, Surrey. He was b. 3 Dec. 1821 ; ed. at Eton, 1831- 39 ; and at Ball. Coll.. Oxford, of which he was a scholar ; matric, 29 Nov. 1838 ; ILL, 18-12 ; Fellow of Ex. Coll., Oxford, 1843-46 ; M.A., 1846 ; Barrister (Mid. Temple), 1846; Recorder of Portsmouth, 1856-G5 ; Queen's Counsel and Bencher of the Middle Temple, 1861 ; M.P. for Exeter, 1865-73 ; Solicitor Gen., 1868-71 ; receiving Knighthood, 12 Dec. 1868 ; Attorney Gen., 1871-73 ; Lord Ch. Justice of the Common Pleas, and B.C., 1873, being raised to the Peerage (in his father's( b ) life- time) in Jan. 1S74 as aboveuientioned ; F.RS., 1875 ; D.C.L., Oxford, 13 June 1S77. On the death of Chief Justice Cockburn, he was, 29 Nov. 1880, appointed Lonn Chief Justice ok ENOLAi»D,( e ) in which office the powers and privileges of the offices of Lord Ck. Justice of the. Common Pleas and of Lord Ch. Baron oj the Exchequer^*) (both of which had previously been abolished), were shortly afterwards vested. He m. firstly, 11 Aug. 1846, at Freshwater, Isle of Wight, Jaue Fortescue, 3rd da. of the Rev. George Turner SeVMOUH, .if Farringford Hill, in that parish. She d. 6 Feb. 1878, aged 53, at No. 1, Sussex Square, Hyde Park, Midx. He m. secondly, 13 Aug. 1885, by spec, lie, at No. 42, Victoria Road, Kensington. Midx. Amy Augusta Jackson, 1st da. of Henry Baring LawkoW), of the Bengal Civil Service. Family estates. — These, in 1883, were under 2,000 acres. (*) Annual Register, 1824. ( b ) This exemplary judge, who d. 11 Feb. 1876, aged 85, was nephew of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (b. 1772 : d. 1834), the famous poet. He was also br. -in-law (wife's brother) to a judge of like eminence and virtue as himself, viz., the Rt. Hon. Sir John Patteson, one of the Justices of the Court of King's Bench (1S30-52), who d. 28 June 1861, aged 71. ( c ) In Block's " Table of the Judges, temp. Victoria," the office of " Lord Chief Justice of England " is (wrongly) attributed to Den.man, Campbell, and Cockburn, who held the office of Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench during that reign. These three were appointed (1832, 1850, and 1859 respectively) under the same style, viz., as *■ Chief Justice to hold Pleas before us," a style which, properly enough, may be considered as equivalent to " Chief Justice of the (King's, or) Queen's Bench," but not to that of " Justiciarius Anylicc." A change of style, but not, however, of rank, took place, when, on 29 Nov. 1880 (44 Vict., pt. i, No. 27), the patent to Lord Cole- ridge grunted him " the office of Lord Chief Justice of England," an office which apparently is the same (in style, though hardly in rank) as that of the ancient " Justiciarius Anglicc," held (last) by the famous Hugh Le Despencer, slain 1265.* It is presumed that the authority for creating this office is to be found somewhere in the Judicature Acts, aud that there is therein an authority for abolishing the Court of Queen's Bench, as well as that of the Common Pleas and the Exchequer. ( d ) This office had been vacant since the death of Ch. Baron Kelly, on the 17th of Sept. previous.
- Had the " Justiciarius Anglia " been then in existence, there is little doubt but
that Henry VIII would have assigned him a place somewhat equivalent to that of the Lord Chancellor (whose rank was placed above that of all Dukes) and the other great officers to whom so high a precedence was accorded under the statute, 31 Hen. VIII. It certainly seems an anomaly that the precedence of " the Chief Justice of England " should be (no higher than was that of the Ch. Justice of the Queen's Bench, i.e.) below, not only all Peers, but even all sons of Peers (save ouly the younger sous of Viscounts and Barons), below, also, all Privy Councillors, and only next above the Master of the Rolls and the puisue Judges.
