2-981-880 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The late Sir John Taylor Coleridge, 1876. Engraving from a photograph by Mr. Williams, of a British judge, '...a nephew of the poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge...[He attended] Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he won a scholarship...obtaining a first class in classical honours. He had gained the Chancellor's University prize for Latin verse composition in 1810...In 1813 he gained both the Bachelor's prizes for essays in English and Latin, the subject of the former being "Etymology," and of the latter "The Influence of the Censorship upon the Morals of the Roman People."...In 1835 he was made one of the Judges of the Queen's Bench. Attaining his seat on the judicial bench at the early age of forty-five, he held it twenty-three years, when he retired, and was sworn a member of her Majesty's Privy Council'. From "Illustrated London News", 1876.