Sir John Taylor Coleridge, an English judge, nephew of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, born at Tiverton, Devonshire, in 1790. He received his education at Corpus Christi college, Oxford, where he distinguished himself by brilliant scholarship, and in 1819 was called to the bar. For many years he went the western circuit, and in 1835 he was appointed a justice of the king's bench. For 23 years he' occupied this post, retiring in June, 1858, when he was appointed a privy councillor. On the occasion of his retirement from the bench, in the presence of a full court, the attorney general addressed him in behalf of his associates at the bar in an impressive speech, to which Justice Coleridge feelingly replied. His remarks are memorable as containing advice to the younger members of the profession directly in conflict* with the dogma of Lord Brougham, that the lawyer should know nobody but his client and no interests but his client's interests. He became editor of the "Quarterly Review " upon the retirement of Giftbrd in 1824; but resigned in 1825, on account of his professional engagements, and was succeeded by Lockhart. He published an annotated edition of Blackstone's "Commentaries" (4 vols., 1825), and a "Memoir of the Rev. John Keble " (1869).