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James Coleridge
Born	(1759-12-03)3 December 1759 Ottery St Mary, England
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 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^[i]
(1718–1781)

Ann Bowden^[i]
(1727–1809)

Luke Herman Coleridge^[ii]
(1765–1790)

Frances Duke Taylor
(1760–1838)

James Coleridge
(1759–1836)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(1772–1834)

Sara Fricker
(1770–1845)

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

Francis George Coleridge
(1794–1854)

Edward Coleridge
(1800–1883)

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

Sara Coleridge^[iii]
(1802–1852)

Hartley Coleridge
(1796–1849)

Derwent Coleridge
(1800–1883)

John Taylor Coleridge
(1790–1876)

Henry James Coleridge
(1822–1893)

Alethea Coleridge
(1827–1909)

John Mackarness
(1820–1889)

Charles Edward Coleridge
(1827–1875)

Herbert Coleridge
(1830–1861)

Christabel Rose Coleridge
(1843–1921)

Ernest Hartley Coleridge
(1846–1920)

John Coleridge
(1820–1894)

Francis James Coleridge
(1825–1862)

Arthur Duke Coleridge
(1830–1913)

Stephen Coleridge
(1854–1936)

Bernard Coleridge
(1851–1927)

Mary Mackarness
(1851–1940)

Percy Duke Coleridge
(1850–1881)

Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
(1861–1907)

Jessie Alethea Mackarness
(1881–1957)

Geoffrey Coleridge
(1877–1955)

John Coleridge
(1878–1951)

Richard Coleridge
(1905–1984)

Cecilia Fisher
(1909–1991)

Sylvia Coleridge
(1909–1986)

William Coleridge
(born 1937)

Notes:

^ ^a ^b Srinivasan, Archana (2004). Eminent English Writers. Sura Books. p. 12. ISBN 9788174785299.
^ ^a ^b This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wroth, Warwick William (1887). "Coleridge, William Hart". In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 11. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
^ ^a ^b Barbeau, Jeffrey W. (2014). Sara Coleridge: Her Life and Thought. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781137430854.

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