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* COLEOPTERA. 136 COLERIDGE. COLEOP'TERA (NeoLat. nom. pi., liom Gk. Koe6irT(poi, l.okopteros, sheath-winged, I'roin KoXeAs, kolcos, sheath + wTep6v, pteroit, wing). An Older of insects, comprising beetles, and charac- terized primarily by the possession of wing-covers. See Beetle. COLEPEPER, kol'pep-er, John, Lord ( ?- IGGO). An Knj;lish politician, prominent as a sup- porter of the !Stuart Kings against the Parliament. He was born at Wigsell, in Sussex, and after travelling abroad began to play an active part in county politics. In 1040 he became a member of the Long Parliament, and, a zealous adherent, at first, of the popular party, gradually passed over to the side of the King, who, in 1G42, made him Chancellor of the Exchequer. With Falkland and Hyde, he plaj'ed an important part in the negotiations between King and Parliament, pre- ceding the outbreak of hostilities. He fought in the battle of Edgehill (October 23, 1G42), and in January of the following year was made master of the rolls, leaving the Chancellorship to Hyde, of whose inlluence he was exceedingly- jealous. On the downfall of the Royalist fortunes in 1G4.5, Charles I. intrusted Colepeper with the care of the person of the Prince of Wales, with whom in the following year he went to France. Later he lived with Prince Charles in the Xelher- lands and remained one of his principal ad- visers, going in his behalf on a mission to Russia (1G50) and accompanying him to the peace con- gress of the Pyrenees in 1659. He returned to England after the Restoration, but died soon after. Colepeper was one of the alilest debaters and politicians of his time in England, but his influence suffered from a certain lack of con- fidence in his own opinions. He was given, too, to violent outliursts of temper. COLEPEPPER, krd'pep-er, Captain John. A bully and murderer, nicknamed 'Poppercul,' in Scott's Fortunes of ^igel, who is killed in a fight in Enfield Chace by Richie lloniplies, just after the murder of Lord Dalgarno. CO'LER, ALWtN Gi-STAV Edmuxd vox (1831 — ). A German physician, born in CJroningen. He studied medicine in Berlin, entered the Prus- sian Army in 18.56. was made surgeon-general in 1874, and head surgeon of the general staflf in 1889. General Coler's activity resulted in improvements of the highest importance in army hygiene, reforms in the military hospital ser- vice, the establishment of corps of sanitfiry officers, and the introduction of antiseptics into military surgical practice. He was also largely instrumental in formulating medical regulations for the German Army, which have since been adopted by the armies of all civilized nations. In 1892 he was made professor at the University of Berlin. He wrote, jointly with Langenbeck and Werner, Die trans-portahle Lazarettbaracke (1890). COLER, Bird Siir (1868—). An American politician, born in Illinois. He established him- self as a stock-broker in New York City, became prominent in municipal and State polities, and served as first Comptroller of Greater Xew York during the administration of Robert Van Wyck as Mayor. In 1902 he was the Democratic nomi- nee for Governor of Xew York, but was defeated by a small plurality in spite of the enormous vote cast for him in the city of Xew York. He published llunicipal Government (1900). COLERAINE, kol-ran'. A Parliamentary and municipal borough and seaport, in the county of Londonderry, Ireland, on the Bann, four miles from the sea, and 47 miles north- northwest of Belfast, with which it is connected by railway (.Map: Ireland, El). It consists of a central square and several diverging streets. The town has considerable manufactures of soap, linen, paper, and leather, and its port is acces- sible to ^hips of 200 tons. Population, 6800. COLE'RIDCrE, Erxest H.rtlev (1S46— ). An English autiior, grandson of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. He was graduated from Balliol Col- lege, Oxford, in 1870; served as tutor from 1872 to 1893, and became secretary to the Lord Chief Justice of England in 1894. He edited Letters of ,V. T. Coleridge (1895) ; Anima Pacta, selec- tions from note-books of Coleridge (1895), and Poetical Works of liyroii (1898-1901) ; and pub- lished a volume of graceful poems (1898). COLERIDGE, H.rtlet (1796-1849). An English poet, born at Clevedon, Somersetshire, the eldest son of S. T. Coleridge. He studied at Oxford, and was elected to a fellowship at Oriel College, from which he was removed by the authorities in 1826 on the charge of intemper- ance. For two years he resided in London. Then he returned to the Lake Country, and after hav- ing twice attempted school-teaching, first pri- vately at Ambleside, and later at the grammar school of Sedbergh as an assistant in 1837 and 1838, settled at Grasmere. An almost constant wanderer about the vales, this diminutive figure, prematurely gray and old. became familiar to the peasantry as "Little Hartley.' He was a scholar of rare attainment, a poet of exquisite taste and easy felicity, to whom, in the words of Dowden. "goo<l thoughts came as of free grace." But lacking will and the capacity for sustained application, he remained despondent, fragmentary, inefi'ectual. His longest literary work was in the preparation of an edition of the dramas of itassinger and Ford, with biographies of those authors (1840). He also wrote a series of lives of the ^Yor1hies of Yorkshire and Lan- ciishire (1836: originally as Bior/raphia Bore- nlis, 1833). He is best known, however, for his verse, which, if it distinctly lacks as to power, is singularly fine in mood and happy in expres- sion. Of the sonnet, a form, as Dr. Garnett observes, '"which precisely suited both his strength and his limitations." he composed some of the finest examples in English. Such are '"Whither." ""To Shakespeare." ""Praver." ""Alav, 1840," '"Regrets," and ""Ideality." His brother, Derwent. edited four volumes of his literary re- mains (two volumes of poetry and two of ]irosp. London. 1851). Selections are to be found in all important anthologies. Hartley Coleridge was, his life long, a friend of Wordsworth, whose "To H. C: Six Years Old," seems strangely prophetic. COLERIDGE. Hexet Xelsox (1798-431. An English man of letters, nephew of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. He was born at Ottery Saint !Mai"v. Devonshire: graduated at Cambridge, and studied law. Soon afterwards he made a trip to the Barbados, which he describes in Six Months in the ^yest Indies (1825). In 1829 he married his cousin. Sara Coleridge. He was his uncle's literary executor, and prepared the second edition of the latter's political and dramatic works (London, 1834). He edited Literary Re-