James Coleridge

James Coleridge
Born	(1759-12-03)3 December 1759 Ottery St Mary
Died	1836 (aged 76–77)
Nationality	British
Known for	The Colonel

James Coleridge (3 December 1759 – 1836) was the older brother of the philosopher-poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge and father of Sir John Taylor Coleridge, future Judge of the King's Bench, and Henry Nelson Coleridge, the editor of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's works.

History

He obtained his captaincy during the period of the French Revolutionary Wars and was later promoted to the Colonel. He purchased the Coleridge family home, the Chanter's House, in Ottery St. Mary, Devon in 1796. During the Napoleonic Wars he escorted French prisoners to Dartmoor prison.^[1]

References

↑ The Story of a Devonshire House, Lord Bernard Coleridge, London: T. Fisher and Unwin; Paternoster Square, MCMV, 1906.

Coleridge family tree

John Coleridge^[1]
(1718–1781)

Ann Bowden^[1]
(1727–1809)

Luke Herman Coleridge^[2]
(1765–1790)

Sarah Hart^[2]
(c.1770–1830)

Frances Duke Taylor^[3]
(1760–1838)

James Coleridge^[3]
(1759–1836)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge^[4]
(1772–1834)

Sarah Fricker^[4]
(1770–1845)

William Hart Coleridge^[2]
(1789–1849)

Harriet Norris
(1801–1866)

Francis George Coleridge
(1794–1854)

Henry Nelson Coleridge^[4]
(1798–1843)

Sara Coleridge^[4]
(1802–1852)

Hartley Coleridge^[5]
(1796–1849)

Derwent Coleridge^[6]
(1800–1883)

Sir John Taylor Coleridge
(1790–1876)

Mary Buchanan
(1788–1874)

Edward Coleridge^[3]
(1800–1883)

Mary Keate^[3]
(1805–1859)

Henry James Coleridge
(1822–1893)

Alethea Coleridge
(1827–1909)

John Mackarness
(1820–1889)

Charles Edward Coleridge
(1827–1875)

Herbert Coleridge
(1830–1861)

Ernest Hartley Coleridge^[6]
(1846–1920)

Christabel Rose Coleridge
(1843–1921)

John Coleridge, Baron
(1820–1894)

Jane Fortescue Seymour
(1824–1878)

Agnes Nind
(1833–1909)

Alfred James Coleridge
(1831–1880)

Francis James Coleridge
(1825–1862)

Sarah Randolph
(1819–1863)

Arthur Duke Coleridge
(1830–1913)

Mary Anne Jameson
(1824–1898)

Stephen Coleridge
(1854–1936)

Bernard Coleridge, Baron
(1851–1927)

Mary Mackarness
(1851–1940)

Edward Philip Coleridge
(1863–1936)

Percy Duke Coleridge
(1850–1881)

Edith Lovell
(1853–1937)

Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
(1861–1907)

Geoffrey Coleridge, Baron
(1877–1955)

Jessie Alethea Mackarness
(1881–1957)

Sir John Coleridge
(1878–1951)

Marjorie Kemball-Cook
(1883–1953)

Cecilia Fisher
(1909–1991)

Richard Coleridge, Baron
(1905–1984)

Sylvia Coleridge
(1909–1986)

William Coleridge, Baron
(born 1937)

Notes:

Family tree of the Coleridge family

1 2 Srinivasan, Archana (2004). Eminent English Writers. Sura Books. p. 12. ISBN 9788174785299.
1 2 3 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wroth, Warwick William (1887). "Coleridge, William Hart". In Stephen, Leslie. Dictionary of National Biography 11. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
1 2 3 4 Blain, Michael. "The Canterbury Association (1848-1852): A Study of Its Members’ Connections" (PDF). Anglican History. Retrieved 2 January 2016.
1 2 3 4 Barbeau, Jeffrey W. (2014). Sara Coleridge: Her Life and Thought. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781137430854.
↑ Colerdige, Derwent (1852). Poems by Coleridge, Hartley, 1796-1849. E. Moxon.
1 2 "Ernest Hartley Coleridge". University of Texas. Retrieved 2 January 2016.

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