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COL acquired an intimate knowledge also of the French and German languages. In 1782 he was appointed to a writership in India. After passing through various subordinate situations, he was appointed chief-justice of the court of Sudder Dewanna and Nizamut Adawluts, and became a member of the supreme council at Bengal. After he had spent eleven years in India, he began the study of the Sanscrit language, in which he became eminently proficient. He published a critical grammar and dictionary of that tongue, and enriched the Asiatic Transactions, published at Calcutta, with memoirs on "The Religious Ceremonies of the Hebrews," on "The Sanscrit Language and Literature," "The Vedas," &c. He also published the great Digest of Hindoo Law, which had been compiled under the direction of Sir William Jones; two treatises on "The Hindoo Law of Inheritance," translated from the Sanscrit; "Algebra of the Hindoos, &c. Mr. Colebrooke died in London in 1837.—J. T.  COLEMAN,, Mus. Doc, a musician belonging to the private band of Charles I. He was an excellent composer, and contributed many pieces of music to "The Musicall Banquet," 1651; "Musicall Ayres and Dialogues," 1652; "Musick's Recreation on the Lyra-Violl," 1656; "Select Ayres," 1659, &c. He also assisted in composing the "Instrumental Musick," for Davenant's Siege of Rhodes, performed at Rutland house in 1656; and contributed many of the explanations of musical terms in Phillips' "New World of Words," 1658. At the restoration of Charles II. the company of musicians was established upon the charter granted by Charles I. to Nicholas Laniere. Coleman who had received the degree of doctor of music in 1651, was admitted a member of this company; and in the minute-book (preserved in Harl. MS., No. 1911) we read, under the date, 1664, July 19, "Thomas Purcell chosen an assistant in the room of Dr. Charles Coleman deceased." He left a son of the same name, who was one of the musicians-in-ordinary" to the king in 1694.—(See Chamberlayne's Angliæ Notitiæ for that year.)—E. F. R.  COLEMAN,, a musician (the husband of Mrs. Coleman, who acted in the Siege of Rhodes), brother to the preceding. He and his wife are frequently spoken of in the Diary of the old gossip Pepys. He was appointed a gentleman of the royal chapel at the restoration; and the ancient cheque-book of that establishment records his death to have taken place at Greenwich, August 29, 1669.—E. F. R.  * COLERIDGE, , only surviving son of S. T. Coleridge, was born at Keswick in 1800, and received his early education with his brother at Ambleside. He then entered St. John's college, Cambridge, and along with Macaulay, Praed, Moultrie, and others, became a contributor to Knight's Quarterly Magazine. He took orders in 1826, but has since been mainly occupied in the business of tuition. He is now principal of St. Mark's college, Chelsea—a well-known training establishment for teachers. He is also a prebendary of St. Paul's. Mr. Coleridge is the author of a work on the "Scriptural Character of t he English Church," and since the death of his sister the duty of collecting and editing his father's unpublished works has devolved upon him.—(See .)—J. T.  COLERIDGE,, eldest son of S. T. Coleridge, was born at Clevedon, near Bristol, in 1796. He was educated at Ambleside, in the school of the Rev. John Dawes, and in 1815 entered Merton college, Oxford. From the earliest years he was distinguished for the brilliancy of his imagination. Wordsworth, in an exquisite poem addressed "To H. C., six years old," speaks of him as one "whose fancies from afar are brought." At school his story-telling powers were quite marvellous, and at college his extraordinary conversational talents caused his society to be much courted, and his frequent invitations to wine parties exposed him to temptations which he was ill fitted both by constitution and training to resist. He passed his examination for a degree in 1818, and gained a fellowship at Oriel with great distinction; but "at the close of his probationary year," says his biographer, "he was judged to have forfeited his fellowship, on the ground mainly of intemperance; and, as too often happens, the ruin of his fortunes served but to increase the weakness that caused their overthrow." The forebodings of Wordsworth— " I think of thee with many fears For what may be thy lot in future years," were unhappily fulfilled in the subsequent career of his gifted young friend. After leaving Oxford, Hartley spent two years in the metropolis, occasionally contributing to the London Magazine. He then removed to Ambleside and reluctantly tried for four or five years the experiment of receiving pupils, which utterly failed. From 1820 to 1831 he contributed a number of admirable articles to Blackwood's Magazine. In 1832-33 he resided in London with Mr. Bingley, a young publisher, for whom he wrote his delightful biographies of the "Worthies of Yorkshire and Lancashire." The remainder of his wayward career he spent in the lake district, occasionally contributing a prose sketch, full of deep thought, or a short poem to one of the periodicals of the day. He died in a cottage on the banks of Rydal water, on the 6th of January, 1849, and was buried in Grasmere churchyard. His illustrious friend, Wordsworth, lies by his side. In 1851 appeared his "Poetical Remains," and collected essays and marginalia, in 2 vols. 12mo, with a touching memoir by his brother, one of the most beautiful pieces of biography of the present day.—J. T.  COLERIDGE,, son of Colonel Coleridge and nephew of the poet, was born at the beginning of this century. He was educated at Eton and subsequently at King's college, Cambridge, where he acquired a high reputation for talent and scholarship. Along with his cousin and other promising youths he was a contributor to Knight's Magazine, under the signature of Joseph Haller. In 1825 he made a voyage to Barbadoes in company with his uncle, Bishop Coleridge, for the recovery of his health; and upon his return he published a lively and amusing narrative of his experiences under the title of "Six Months in the West Indies." Mr. Coleridge was called to the bar in 1826, and shortly after married his cousin, the accomplished daughter of the poet. His progress in his professional career was gradual but steady, and he ultimately attained a good practice in the court of chancery. He did not, however, neglect his literary pursuits; and in 1830 published an "Introduction to the Study of the Greek Classics." After the death of his uncle, to whom he was appointed literary executor, he devoted himself assiduously to the task of collecting and publishing such of his works as were best fitted to exhibit his great abilities as a theologian, philosopher, and critic; and his "Table Talk," his "Literary Remains," "Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit," and a republication of "The Friend" successively issued from the press under his care. This labour of love, however, which was performed with great judgment and unwearied industry, combined with the duties of his profession, seems to have proved too much for Mr. Coleridge's strength. The malady from which he had suffered in 1825 returned upon him; and after a lingering sickness of many months, which he bore with most exemplary patience and cheerfulness, he died on the 10th of January, 1843.—(Knight's English Cyclop.)—J. T.  * COLERIDGE,, one of the judges of the court of queen's bench, cousin of the preceding, and nephew of the poet, was born in 1790. He was educated at Corpus Christi college, Oxford, where he was first class in classics in 1812, and became the intimate friend of Dr. Arnold, and of Keble, the author of the "Christian Year." He was called to the bar in 1819, and was raised to the bench by Sir Robert Peel in 1835. Mr. Justice Coleridge was for a short time editor of the Quarterly Review, and has contributed frequently to its pages. In 1826 he published an edition of Blackstone's Commentaries, with notes.—J. T.  COLERIDGE,, was born at Ottery St. Mary in Devonshire, on the 21st October, 1772. His father was the Rev. John Coleridge, vicar of that parish; a man of considerable learning, of singularly amiable qualities, and remarkable for certain eccentricities of mind and manner, which reappeared in no faint degree in his illustrious son. Samuel Taylor was the youngest of a numerous family, and is said to have displayed even in his childhood many of those qualities which characterized his after life. Averse to the ordinary amusements of children, he loved to dream away the hours in solitary haunts. Having become an orphan at the age of nine, he was, on account of the narrow circumstances of his family, placed on the foundation of Christ's hospital. Leigh Hunt and Charles Lamb were among his contemporaries at that noble establishment, with the latter of whom he formed an intimate friendship which continued tender and true till the day of his death. Coleridge outstripped all his competitors in learning. He made extraordinary advances in classical knowledge, in proof of which it may be mentioned that before completing his fifteenth year he translated the Greek <section end="1156Zcontin" />