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 DEBRETT S ILLUSTRATED PEERAGE. 115 Creation, Baron Colchester, in the peerage of the United Kingdom, 1817. Srms, Gules : on a chevron, between three pears, or, as many crosses raguly, azure ; the whole within a tressure, flory, gold. (CrtSt, Out of a ducal coronet, or, an unicorn's head, ermine, armed, crined, and tufted of the first, between six ostrich feathers, argent, quilled, gold, .Supporters, Two unicorns, ermine, armed, unguled, crined, and tufted, or, gorged with a collar, azure, between two single tressures, gules, and chain reflexed over tae backs, gold, and charged on the shoulder with a cross raguly, of the third. Clubs, Carlton, New University. COLCHESTEE, Baron, His lordship's predecessor was his father, Charles, D.C.L. 2nd Baron. He was ';. March 12, 1798, and succeeded his father in 1829 ; was educated at Westminster; entered the Royal Navy in 1811, and became an Admiral on the Reserved List in 1864; was Vice- President of the Board of Trade, Paymaster- General and Treasurer of the Navy, 1*52 ; Postmaster General, 1858- -9 : m. 1836, the Hon. Elizabeth Susan Law, 3rd daughter of the 1st Baron Ellenborough, and d. Oct 18. 1867, having had issue one son. COLCHESTER, ELIZABETH SUSAN LAW, Baroness, 3rd daughter of the 1st Baron Ellenborough; m. 1836, the 2nd Baron Colchester, who d. 1867. Residence, 37, Montague-square, W. Cole, family name of the Earl of Enniskillen. ,, Viscount, son of the Earl of Enniskillen. (see Enniskillen.) COLERIDGE, BARON. (COLERIDGE.) JOHN DUKE COLERIDGE, P.C., 1st Baron, eldest son of the Right Hon. Sir John Taylor Coleridge, formerly a Judge of the Court of Queen's Bench, by Mary, eldest daughter of the late Rev. G. Buchanan, LL.D., Vicar of Woodman - sterne, and Rector of Northfleet. Born 1821 ; was educated at Eton, and at Bal- liol College, Oxford, tvhere he obtained a scholarship, and subsequently became a Fellow of Exeter College (B.A. 1842, ege M.A. 1846.) Called to the Bar at the Fear God, and honour the king. Middle Temple 1847, and made a Q.C. and Bencher of the Middle Temple 1861. Was Recorder of Portsmouth from 1855 till 1866, Solicitor-General from Dec. 1868 to Nov. 1871, and Attorney-General from Nov. 1871 till IS'ov. 1873, when he was appointed Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas. Author of various papers in the " Edinburgh Review" and other periodicals. Sat as M.P. for Exeter from 1865 till 1873, having in 1864 been an unsuccessful candidate. Married (Ib40) Jane Fortescue, 3rd daughter of the Rev. George Turner Seymour, of Farringford Hill, Isle of Wight, and has issue, living, Sons, Bernard John Seymour, b. 1853 ; educated at Eton, is at Trinity College, Oxford. Stephen William Buchanan, b. 1854. Gilbert James Duke, b. 1859. Daughter, Mildred Mary. Sish-r lii'ing, Alethea Buchanan, m. 1849, the Right Rev. J. F. Mackarness, D.D., 3lst Bishop of Oxford. Creation, Baron Coleridge of Ottery St. Mary, in the county of Devon, in the peerage of the United Kingdom 187:5. arms. Argent : on a mount vert in base, an otter proper ; a chief gules, charged with a dove of the field between two crosses patee fit hi- e or. Crest, A crucifix or, rising from an otter, as in the arms. Supporters, Dexter, an otter proper, gorged with a garland of roses gules, leaved vert; sinister, a lion sable, gorged as the former. Town Residence, 1, Sussex Square, W. Clubs, Athenaeum, Reform,