John Duke Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge (1820–94)

Judge. Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, 1843–6. Called to the bar, 1846; recorder of Portsmouth, 1855–66. Liberal MP for Exeter, 1865–73. Solicitor-general, 1868–71; attorney-general, 1871–3; chief justice of the common pleas, 1873–80; lord chief justice of England, 1880–94. Anti-vivisectionist. Knighted, 1868. Created baron, 1873.