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HE RIGHT HON. JOHN DUKE COLERIDGE, Lord Chief Justice of England, was born at Heath's Court, Ottery St. Mary, and educated at Eton (at which time our second portrait represents him), and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he was an undergraduate at nineteen, the age of our third portrait. He was called to the Bar in 1846, and after a brilliant career was, at fifty, the age of our fourth portrait, made Attorney-General. Two years later he was raised to the peerage by the title of Baron Coleridge, of Ottery St. Mary. In 1880 he was made Lord Chief Justice of England, and is, as need hardly here be added, one of the most brilliant ornaments of the British bench, which consists, now as ever, of some of the finest intellects and characters of their generation.