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

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, 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 Ottery St Mary, known as "Ottery", is a town and civil parish in the East Devon district of Devon, England, on the River Otter, about east of Exeter on the B3174. At the 2001 census, the parish, which includes the villages of Metcombe, Fai ...

, Devon in 1796. During the Napoleonic Wars he escorted French prisoners to Dartmoor prison.The Story of a Devonshire House, Lord Bernard Coleridge, London: T. Fisher and Unwin; Paternoster Square, MCMV, 1906.

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