Index

To

The President’s Address

Trans. Devon. Assoc., vol.   XXX (1898), pp. 25-41.

by

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

Prepared by Michael Steer

The Devonshire Association’s Presidential Address was delivered at its August 1898 Honiton meeting. On that occasion, the incoming President opened his address by referring to Honiton, host for the annual meeting, as “this town, which was anciently a borough, returning two members to Parliament”, and asserted that it might have been one of the reasons for his having made the boroughs of Devonshire his presentation theme”. The Association’s President for 1897, John Duke Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge, was a lawyer, judge and politician. He held the posts, in turn, of Solicitor-General for England, Attorney-General for England, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and Lord Chief Justice of England. He was the eldest son of John Taylor Coleridge, and the great-nephew of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. His Presidential Address, from a copy of a rare 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.