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 COLEOPTERA COLERIDGE Harrow, in 1842 tutor of St. John's college, and in 1846 rector of Forncett St. Mary. In 1854 he was appointed bishop of Natal, S. Africa. He had previously published text books in arithmetic, algebra, and trigonometry, a volume of sermons, and an edition of the communion service, with selections from the writings of F. D. Maurice. In 1861 he pub- lished "The Epistle to the Romans, newly translated, and explained from a Missionary Point of View," and in 1862 " The Pentateuch and Book of Joshua, Critically Examined." This last work, in which he called in question many of the statements contained in those books, excited much animadversion, and was formally condemned by the convocation of the province of Canterbury, and he was declared by the bishop of Cape Town to be deposed from the office of bishop. An appeal to the privy council was taken upon the ground that th crown had no right to create a bishop in any colony where there was an independent legislature, and that therefore there was in law no bishop either of Cape Town or Natal. In England he found many sympathizers, and previous to his return to Natal in 1865 a pub- lic meeting was held, and he received a testi- monial of 3,300. In 1866 he published a vol- ume entitled "Natal Sermons," and several papers justifying his course in the controversy. In January, 1869, the Rev. William Kenneth Macrorie was consecrated bishop of Maritz- burg in Natal, it being held that the see was duly vacated by his predecessor ; but in 1872 the colonial assembly passed an act vesting in Dr. Colenso the property belonging to the see of Natal. In 1871 he published "The new Bible Commentary, by Bishops and other Clergy of the Anglican Church, critically examined." In 1872 appeared an abridgment of his work on the Pentateuch, and in 1873 "Lectures on the Pentateuch and the Moabite Stone," with appendices. COLEOPTERA. See BEETLE. COLERAUVE, a maritime town and parliamen- tary borough of Ireland, county of London- derry, situated on both sides of the river Bann, 4 m. from the sea, and 47 m. N. W. of Belfast, on the railway from Belfast to Portrush ; pop. in 1871, 6,236. It is distinguished for the manufacture of a fine quality of linen called coleraines. It is fast improving in spinning and weaving factories, and also in pork-curing establishments. There is regular connection by steamer with Toome, and arrangements were completed at the beginning of 1873 to increase the depth of water in the river Bann, so as to enable larger vessels to discharge their cargoes on the quay of Coleraine. It is con- nected by a handsome bridge over the Bann with the village of Killowen or Waterside GOLHUDGE, Hartley, the eldest son of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, born at Clevedon, near Bris- tol, Sept. 19, 1796, died at Rydal Water, Jan. 6, 1849. His birth was commemorated by his .father in two sonnets, and his early peculiari- ties were described and his wayward career almost prophesied in an exquisite poem ad- dressed to him when six years old by Words- worth. He was reared in the lake district in the north of England, and after a visit to Lon- don in 1807 he and his brother Derwent be- came day scholars of a clergyman at Amble- side. Yet the best part of his education was by intercourse with the friends of his father ; and he speaks of himself as having been formed I by the living voice of Coleridge, Southey, Wordsworth, Lloyd, Wilson, and De Quincey. In his school days he showed both imaginative and conversational powers by weaving long and wild stories, the recital of which would occupy him and his listeners night after night for months. In 1815, having become a stu- dent at Merton college, Oxford, his accom- plishments and brilliant conversation gained him numerous invitations to social gatherings, and he acquired habits of wine-drinking over which he afterward had little control. He passed a highly honorable examination for his degree in 1818, and obtained a fellowship at Oriel college ; but before the close of his pro- bationary year his intemperance caused the forfeiture of this position. The punishment fell heavily upon his sensitive temperament, and in his despondency and morbid conscious- ness of shame he resisted less and less the weakness which had caused the overthrow of his fortunes. He left Oxford and resided for two years in London, contributing his first sonnets to the " London Magazine." A scheme to receive pupils at Ambleside failed, and proved that he was unfit for any future exer- tion of the kind ; yet he remained till his death in the lake district, excepting a short residence at Leeds, beloved by all his neighbors and watched over by the family in whose house he lived. His father expressed in his will great solicitude to secure to him the tranquillity ne- cessary to the exercise of his literary talents, and by a bequest provided him with "the continued means of a home." Wordsworth was his near neighbor, and was most atten- tive to the child-like man whose life he had traced from the cradle. Hartley was a diligent reader, a deep thinker, and an easy writer. His verse and his prose are alike exquisite. His sonnets are among the finest in the Eng- lish language, and his volume of biography, the " Lives of Northern Worthies," is written in a pleasant, vivacious style, with a vein of fine philosophy. During his latter years he wrote a " Life of Massinger," and many short poems. His grave is in the Grasmere church- yard, by the side of that of Wordsworth. COLERIDGE, Henry Nelson, an English lawyer and author, nephew of Samuel Taylor Cole- ridge, born about 1800, died Jan. 26, 1843. He was first a scholar at Eton, and became in due course a scholar and subsequently a fellow of King's college, Cambridge, where he received the degree of A. B. in 1823. While in college he won several prizes for Greek and Latin