John Duke Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge (3 December 1820 to 14 June 1894) was an English lawyer, judge and Liberal politician, and a great nephew of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who served as Solicitor General from 1868 to 1871, Attorney General from 1871 to 1873, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas from 1873 to 1880, and Lord Chief Justice of England from 1880 to 1894. Educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford, he was called to the bar in 1846 and sat as Member of Parliament for Exeter from 1865 to 1873 before his elevation to Baron Coleridge in January 1874. As a judge he presided over notable cases including R v Dudley and Stephens in 1884 and the Royal Baccarat Scandal trial of 1891, and in 1884 he was elected to the American Philosophical Society.
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John Duke Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge 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.
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