People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1894 — BEFORE A HIGHER BAR. [ARTICLE]

BEFORE A HIGHER BAR.

I,or<l Chief Justice Coleridge, of England, Is Dead. London, June 16. —Lord Chief Justice Coleridge is dead. He was unconscious for a few hours before hisdeath, which was painless. His Son Bernard will succeed him in the peerage. It is announced that Baron Russell will succeed Lord Coleridge as lord chief justice and that Sir John Rigby will become a lord justice of appeals in place of Baron Russell. Robert T. Reid, now solicitor general, will become attorney general, and Richard B. Haldeman, M. P., solicitor general. [John Duke Coleridge was born in 1831. He was educated at Oxford. In 1855 he was appointed recorder of Portsmouth and in 1861 became queen's counsel. From 1866 to 1873 he was a member of the house of commons. In November, 1871, he became attorney general In Gladstone's cabinet. He was appointed lord chief justice of England on the death of Sir Alexander Cockburn in 1880, having been previously raised to the peerage under the title of Baron Coleridge, of Ottery St. Mary, in the county of Devon. J