Index

To

The President’s Address

Trans. Devon. Assoc., vol.  II, Part II, (1868), pp.285-302.

by

J.D.Coleridge, Esq., M.A., M.P., Q.C.

Prepared by Michael Steer

The Devonshire Association’s Presidential Address was read at its July 1868 Honiton meeting. It is phrased in the florid and engaging prose fashionable in its day. The address provides a compendium of the men of “learning and accomplishment” from remote antiquity to his time. Its author, John Duke Coleridge, who would become 1st Baron Coleridge, PC (3 December 1820 – 14 June 1894) was a lawyer, judge and Liberal politician. He held the posts, in turn, of Solicitor General for England and Wales, Attorney General for England and Wales, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and Lord Chief Justice of England. He was also the great-nephew of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. An extensive biography, together with his portrait and coat of arms is available in Wikipedia. The Address, from a copy of a rare and much sought-after journal can be downloaded from the Internet Archive. Google has sponsored the digitisation of books from several libraries. These books, on which copyright has expired, are available for free educational and research use, both as individual books and as full collections to aid researchers.