1081 Bernard Coleridge

Constituency  : Sheffield  Attercliffe  1885-94.

Bernard  won  the  new  seat  of  Sheffield  Attercliffe.

Bernard  was  the  son  and  heir  of  Baron  Coleridge, former  Liberal  MP  for  Exeter  and  Lord  Chief  Justice  for  England. He  was  educated  at  Eton  and  Oxford  and  became  a  barrister.

Bernard  was  opposed  to  anti-vivisection.

Bernard  was  a  skilful  public  orator  described  as  "silver-tongued".

In  1894  Bernard  succeeded  to  his  father's  title.  He  did  so  unwillingly  because  he  thought  it  might  prevent  him  from  practicing  at  the  Bar  ; he  became  the  first  lord  to  regularly  do  so He  served  as  a  High  Court  judge  from  1907  to  1923,  becoming  the  first  hereditary  peer   to  become  a  judge  outside  the  House  of  Lords  itself..

He  died  in  1927 aged  76.