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to eminence in any department of life's His career in college was in every way creditable, and its close was almost brilliant. activities to which he had devoted himself. The law was his vocation, and as a jurist he He passed with first-class honors when he will be judged. Better lawyers there have was but twenty-one years of age, and was at been upon the English Bench, but better once elected Fellow of Exeter. This fellow jurists never, and none who were capable ship he did not hold long, because it had, of taking a broader and more philosophical of course, to be forfeited when he was view of the subjects that were brought to married, an event which took place within four years. During the same year, 1846, him for judgment. he took his M.A. de The subject of our gree, and was admit sketch was born in ted to the Bar. Be December, 1821. ing called at the His earlier education Middle Temple, he was obtained at immediately went Eton, the most fa upon his father's old mous of the great circuit, and thus public schools o f reaped the benefit of England. From this a well-known name he entered Balliol and a reputation that College, Oxford, was firmly estab where he graduated lished. He did not, B.A. in 1842, and like some of the took his Master's de most brilliant of the gree in 1846. While legal luminaries of a at college he devel former age, have to oped a taste for .the wait year after year ological argument, for remunerative and under the influ work. He was very ence of Arnold and soon in possession of Keble, who were a large practice, and warm friends of his was also a tolerably father's, his mind re LORD COLERIDGE. regular contributor ceived a very de to some of the prom cided inclination towards the principles of the High Church inent magazines, in which he expended his party. Like his uncle, of whom mention surplus energies in critical and readable es has been made, he gained among his col says upon literature, politics, and theology. In the year 1855, Mr. Coleridge was ap lege friends and acquaintances a reputation as a conversationalist of a high order. So pointed to the Recordership of the seaport smooth and polished were his sentences, town of Portsmouth, and six years later he and so strongly theological were his general changed his gown of stuff for one of silk, utterances that it was presumed by many having attained to the dignity of a Q.C. that the church was his destination. In The learned gentleman now began to think after life this so strongly flavored his po of entering Parliament, as this seemed to be litical utterances and his writings that when the next stone upon which he must step, he became a judge, some satirist remarked in order to continue the path which he in that nature intended him for a bishop, tended to travel. His first efforts to obtain a seat were not successful, but at length, in but accident had made him a judge.