Baron Coleridge, of Ottery St Mary in the County of Devon, is a peerage title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1874 and is still extant. The first Baron Coleridge was the nephew of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The Peerage is a system of titles of nobility which exists in the United Kingdom and is one part of the British honours system. ... The Peerage of the United Kingdom comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Act of Union in 1801. ... 1874 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet, 1795 Samuel Taylor Coleridge (October 21, 1772 – July 25, 1834) was an English poet, critic, and philosopher who was, along with his friend William Wordsworth, one of the founders of the Romantic Movement in England and as one of the Lake Poets. ...
John Duke Coleridge, 1st BaronColeridge (3 December 1820- 14 June 1894), Lord Chief Justice of England, was the eldest son of Sir John Taylor Coleridge.
In November 1873 Coleridge succeeded Sir W. Bovill as Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and was immediately afterwards raised to the peerage as BaronColeridge of Ottery St Mary.
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