Richard Coleridge, 4th Baron Coleridge

Captain Richard Duke Coleridge, 4th Baron Coleridge, KBE, DL, RN (24 September 1905 – 20 May 1984) had a distinguished naval career and served as the first Executive Secretary of NATO from 1952-1970.^[1]

He was the son of Geoffrey Duke Coleridge, 3rd Baron Coleridge of Ottery St. Mary and Jessie Alethea Mackarness. He married Cecilia Rosamund Fisher, daughter of Admiral Sir William Wordsworth Fisher, on 28 August 1936.^[2] Coleridge was educated at the Royal Naval College, Osborne, Isle of Wight and at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, Devon, in England. In 1926 he was promoted to Sub-Lieutenant with Seniority,^[3] and in 1936 to Lieutenant-Commander.^[4] He served in World War II and was with the War Cabinet Office between 1940 and 1941.^[2]

He was with the Joint Staff Mission to Washington in 1941, and was Deputy Secretary to the British Joint Staff and Combined Chiefs of Staff between 1942 and 1945.^[2] Coleridge was invested OBE in 1944. He was decorated with the U.S. Legion of Merit on 27 November 1945.^[2]^[5] He was U.K. Secretary to the Military Staff Committee of the U.N. between 1946 and 1948, and was Secretary to the British Joint Services Mission to Washington, D.C. in 1948. He was Chief Staff Officer to Marshal of the Royal Air Force, Lord Tedder. He was invested as a CBE in 1951.^[2] He was promoted to Captain in the Royal Navy in 1952.^[6]

Coleridge succeeded to the title of 4th Baron Coleridge of Ottery St. Mary on 27 March 1955. He was invested as a KBE in 1971. He was the first Executive Secretary of NATO from 1952-1970.^[1]^[7] He was Chairman of the Devon and Exeter Savings Bank between 1971 and 1975. He held the office of Deputy Lieutenant of Devon in 1973. He was chairman of the TSB between 1975 and 1984.^[2] His wife died in 1991 aged 81.

References

1 2 Coleridge in the NATO Archives, Brussels
1 2 3 4 5 6 Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition volume 1, page 852
↑ London Gazette 2 August 1927
↑ London Gazette 19 June 1936
↑ Harry S Truman Presidential Library and Museum
↑ London Gazette 25 July 1952
↑ NATO Archives

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Preceded by Geoffrey Duke Coleridge	Baron Coleridge	Succeeded by William Duke Coleridge

Coleridge family tree

John Coleridge^[1]
(1718–1781)

Ann Bowden^[1]
(1727–1809)

Luke Herman Coleridge^[2]
(1765–1790)

Sarah Hart^[2]
(c.1770–1830)

Frances Duke Taylor^[3]
(1760–1838)

James Coleridge^[3]
(1759–1836)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge^[4]
(1772–1834)

Sarah Fricker^[4]
(1770–1845)

William Hart Coleridge^[2]
(1789–1849)

Harriet Norris
(1801–1866)

Francis George Coleridge
(1794–1854)

Henry Nelson Coleridge^[4]
(1798–1843)

Sara Coleridge^[4]
(1802–1852)

Hartley Coleridge^[5]
(1796–1849)

Derwent Coleridge^[6]
(1800–1883)

Sir John Taylor Coleridge
(1790–1876)

Mary Buchanan
(1788–1874)

Edward Coleridge^[3]
(1800–1883)

Mary Keate^[3]
(1805–1859)

Henry James Coleridge
(1822–1893)

Alethea Coleridge
(1827–1909)

John Mackarness
(1820–1889)

Charles Edward Coleridge
(1827–1875)

Herbert Coleridge
(1830–1861)

Ernest Hartley Coleridge^[6]
(1846–1920)

Christabel Rose Coleridge
(1843–1921)

John Coleridge, Baron
(1820–1894)

Jane Fortescue Seymour
(1824–1878)

Agnes Nind
(1833–1909)

Alfred James Coleridge
(1831–1880)

Francis James Coleridge
(1825–1862)

Sarah Randolph
(1819–1863)

Arthur Duke Coleridge
(1830–1913)

Mary Anne Jameson
(1824–1898)

Stephen Coleridge
(1854–1936)

Bernard Coleridge, Baron
(1851–1927)

Mary Mackarness
(1851–1940)

Edward Philip Coleridge
(1863–1936)

Percy Duke Coleridge
(1850–1881)

Edith Lovell
(1853–1937)

Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
(1861–1907)

Geoffrey Coleridge, Baron
(1877–1955)

Jessie Alethea Mackarness
(1881–1957)

Sir John Coleridge
(1878–1951)

Marjorie Kemball-Cook
(1883–1953)

Cecilia Fisher
(1909–1991)

Richard Coleridge, Baron
(1905–1984)

Sylvia Coleridge
(1909–1986)

William Coleridge, Baron
(born 1937)

References:

1 2 Srinivasan, Archana (2004). Eminent English Writers. Sura Books. p. 12. ISBN 9788174785299.
1 2 3 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wroth, Warwick William (1887). "Coleridge, William Hart". In Stephen, Leslie. Dictionary of National Biography 11. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
1 2 3 4 Blain, Michael. "The Canterbury Association (1848-1852): A Study of Its Members’ Connections" (PDF). Anglican History. Retrieved 2 January 2016.
1 2 3 4 Barbeau, Jeffrey W. (2014). Sara Coleridge: Her Life and Thought. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781137430854.
↑ Colerdige, Derwent (1852). Poems by Coleridge, Hartley, 1796-1849. E. Moxon.
1 2 "Ernest Hartley Coleridge". University of Texas. Retrieved 2 January 2016.

Family tree of the Coleridge family

Mackarness family tree

John Mackarness
(1794–1870)

Catharine Coxhead
(1793–1878)

Alethea Coleridge
(1827–1909)

John Fielder Mackarness
Bishop of Oxford
(1820–1889)

George Richard Mackarness
Bishop of Argyll and The Isles
(1823–1883)

Mary Anne Young
(1824–1873)

James Planché
dramatist, antiquary and officer of arms
(1796–1880)

William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse
astronomer and peer
(1800–1867)

Mary Field
astronomer and photographer
(1813–1885)

Henry Smith Mackarness
(1827–1868)

Matilda Planché
children's novelist
(1825–1881)

John Graham Campbell
(1811–1889)

Jessie Saunders
(1834–1901)

Randal Parsons
(1848–1936)

Eleanor Victoria Mackarness
(1855–1936)

Charles Coleridge Mackarness
Archdeacon of the East Riding
(1850–1918)

Frederick Coleridge Mackarness
barrister, judge and politician
(1854–1920)

Mary Mackarness
(1851–1940)

Bernard Coleridge,
2nd Baron Coleridge
lawyer and politician
(1851–1927)

George Evelyn Mackarness
(1851–1896)

Maria Graham Campbell
(1859–1890)

Rollo Graham Campbell
(1868–1946)

Catherine Prideaux
(1874–1956)

Geoffrey Coleridge,
3rd Baron Coleridge
archivist and peer
(1877–1955)

Jessie Alethea Mackarness
(1881–1957)

Rollo Graham Campbell
Bishop of Colombo
(1903–1978)

Richard Coleridge,
4th Baron Coleridge
naval officer and peer
(1905–1984)

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Family tree of the Mackarness family

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