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 succeeded his father as Governor of the Leeward Islands. Resigning that post in 1703 he passed the remainder of his life in seclusion and study on his estates in Barbadoes, where he died 7 April, 1710. He was celebrated amongst his contemporaries as a Scholar and Wit, but left no published writings behind him. His name is commemorated in "Codrington College" in Barbadoes, an institution he founded.



Admitted 13 November, 1770.

Only son of Thomas Coke, Barrister, of the Cokes of Trusley, Derbyshire. He was born 17 July, 1745, and educated at Oxford, where he graduated in 1769. He was admitted from Lincoln's Inn, and called to the Bar 25 April, 1776. After practising for some years on the Midland Circuit he was elected Member of Parliament for Derby in 1775, and afterwards for Nottingham, for which he sat till 1812. In Parliament he was a frequent speaker as an independent supporter of the Tory Government. In 1791 he held a brief for the Crown in the prosecution of the Birmingham rioters, who sacked the house of Dr. Priestley, and at the close of the American war was a Commissioner for settling American claims. He died at Derby 6 Dec. 1825. He was Reader at the Inn in 1805.



Admitted 5 April, 1645.

Second son of Henry Coke of Thorington, Suffolk, and grandson of the famous lawyer. He was educated at Cambridge, where he obtained a reputation for learning though he did not graduate. He is remembered chiefly as the author of treatises upon Trade and Political Economy, but particularly of a work entitled A Detection of the Court and State of England, published in 1694, which contains much curious information relative to the state of the country during the time of the Stuart kings and the Commonwealth. He died in the Fleet about the year 1703.

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Admitted 16 June, 1821.

Fourth son of James Coleridge of Heath's Court, Ottery St. Mary, and younger brother of (q.v.). Though called to the Bar 24 Nov. 1826, his life was wholly devoted to literature. Besides editing the works of his uncle, Samuel Taylor Coleridge—The Literary Remains (1836—39); The Constitution of Church and State (1839); Biographia Literaria; and The Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit (1840)—and publishing his Table Talk, Mr. Coleridge contributed to the Reviews, and was the author of the following works: Six Months in the West Indies [anon.] (1826); Introduction to the Study of the Greek Classic Poets (1830). He died 26 Jan. 1843.



Admitted 27 April, 1843.

Eldest son of (q.v.), of Montagu Place, Bloomsbury. He was born at Ottery St. Mary. He was educated at Eton and Oxford and was called to the Bar 6 Nov. 1846. In 1855 he was appointed