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The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland and Ireland, VIII p. 372 Vancouver Library # r 929.7 C68c says born on December 3, 1820 at 7 Hadlow Street, London, England.
Lord Chief Justice of England
Coleridge, John Duke Coleridge, 1st baron. Law of Blasphemous Libel: the Summing up in the Case of Regina v. Foote and Others; Revised and with a Preface by the Lord Chief Justice of England. London, Stevens, 1883. 32p. C435
George W. Foote, editor of the Freethinker, was sentenced to one year in prison for blasphemous libel, in a case heard by Judge Coleridge. Foote published his own three-hour defense in a pamphlet, Defence of Free Speech, in which he praised the fairness of Lord Coleridge's handling of the trial.
John Duke COLERIDGE, British jurist. Educated at the University of Oxford. He began practicing law in 1846 and was elected to Parliament in 1865. Three years later he was appointed solicitor general and in 1871 became attorney general. He was appointed chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas in 1873, was raised to the peerage in 1874, and was chief justice of the Court of the Queen's Bench from 1880 to 1894.
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John Duke COLERIDGE
Sex: M
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Christened: 25 Jan 1821 Saint Pancras, Old Church, London, England
Parents:
Father: John Taylor COLERIDGE
Mother: Mary
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Batch number: C047931
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