RARE “1st Baron Coleridge\" John Coleridge Hand Signed ANS Dated 1872 For Sale

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RARE “1st Baron Coleridge\" John Coleridge Hand Signed ANS Dated 1872:
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Up for sale the "1st Baron Coleridge" John Coleridge Hand Signed ANS Dated 1872. 

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John

Duke Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge, PC (3

December 1820 – 14 June 1894) was an English lawyer, judge and Liberal politician.

He held the posts, in turn, of Solicitor

General for England and Wales, Attorney

General for England and Wales, Chief Justice of the

Common Pleas and Lord Chief

Justice of England. Coleridge was the eldest son of John Taylor Coleridge, and

the great-nephew of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. He was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford,

and was called to the bar in

1846. Coleridge was a member of the Canterbury Association from

24 June 1851.  Coleridge

established a successful legal practice on the western circuit. From 1853 to

1854 he held the post of secretary to the Royal

Commission on the City of London. In 1865 he was elected to the House of Party. He made a favourable impression on the leaders

of his party and when the Liberals came to office in 1868 under William Ewart Gladstone,

Coleridge was appointed Solicitor-General.

In 1871 he was promoted to Attorney-General,

a post he held until 1873. In 1871 he was also involved in the

high-publicity Tichborne Case. In 1873 he

was described by the Manchester-based Women's Suffrage Journal as

a "firm and consistent" supporter of women's suffrage.

In November 1873 Coleridge succeeded Sir William Bovill as Chief Justice of the Common Pleas,

and in January 1874 was raised to the peerage as Baron Coleridge, of Ottery St Mary

in the County of Devon.

In 1875, the three English common law courts (the Court of Queen's Bench, the Court of Common Pleas,

and the Court of the Exchequer)

merged to become divisions of the new High Court of Justice. The

head of each court (Lord Chief Justice Sir

Alexander Cockburn, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas Lord

Coleridge, and Chief Baron of the Exchequer Sir Fitzroy Kelly) continued in post. After the deaths of Kelly

and Cockburn in 1880, the three divisions were merged into a single division,

with Lord Coleridge as Lord Chief

Justice of England. In 1884, he was elected as a member of the American his health failing towards the end of

his life he remained in this office until his death on 14 June 1894, aged 74.

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