John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge

John Duke Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge PC ( born December 3, 1820 Ottery St. Mary, † June 14, 1894 in London) was a British lawyer, judge and politician.

Coleridge was the eldest son of Sir John Taylor Coleridge and the great-nephew of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. He attended Eton College and then studied at Balliol College, Oxford. From 1853 to 1854 he was secretary of the Royal Commission on the City of London. In 1865 he was elected for the Liberal party in the House of Commons. From 1868 to 1873 he was first Attorney General and Solicitor General. He then moved to the office of Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, which he held seven years. Already in 1874 as Baron Coleridge Coleridge, of Ottery St. Mary was raised in the County of Devon, in the hereditary nobility.

In 1880 he became Lord Chief Justice of England.

Lord Coleridge was married to Jane Seymour Fortescue, and had with her four children. His first wife died in 1878. He married 1885 Amy Augusta Jackson Lawford. Lord Coleridge died age of 74 on 14 June 1894. His title was inherited by his eldest son, Bernard, who was also a prominent judge.