John Coleridge (Indian Army officer)

Sir John Coleridge
Born	(1878-04-25)25 April 1878^[1]
Died	3 November 1951(1951-11-03) (aged 73)
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	British Indian Army
Years of service	1898 - 1940
Rank	General
Commands held	189th Brigade 188th Brigade Peshawar District Northern Command, India
Battles/wars	World War I
Awards	Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George Distinguished Service Order

General Sir John Francis Stanhope Duke Coleridge GCB CMG DSO (25 April 1878 – 3 November 1951) was a senior British Indian Army officer who went on to be Military Secretary to the India Office.

Military career

Coleridge was educated at Wellington College^[2] and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.^[2] He was commissioned into the Indian Staff Corps in 1898,^[3] transferred to the 8th Gurkhas in July 1900^[4] and was sent on a mission to Tibet in 1903.^[5]

Coleridge served on the Abor expedition on the north east frontier of India in 1911-12 and was mentioned in despatches.^[6] He served in World War I and in 1916 was on the General Staff of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force.^[7] He served as Commander of 189th Brigade from October 1917 and then 188th Brigade from December 1917^[8] and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order,^[9] Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George^[10] and a bar to his Distinguished Service Order.^[11]

After the War he returned to India as a General Staff Officer^[12] and carried out a review the new Indian Defence Force and the internal security measures there.^[13]

He served as Assistant Commandant at the Quetta Staff College from 1923 to 1925, Military Secretary Army Headquarters, India from 1926 to 1930 and became commander of the Kohat District in 1930.^[14]

During the North West Frontier operations of 1930-31 he commanded, as a Major-General, the Peshawar District.^[15] He was Military Secretary to the India Office from 1933 to 1936^[16] and General Officer Commanding Northern Command, India from 1936 to 1940 for which he was mentioned in despatches twice,^[17]^[18] retiring shortly afterwards.^[19]

He was a Companion of the Order of the Bath,^[20] Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath^[21] and Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath.^[22] He was also Aide de Camp General to the King from 1936 to 1940.^[14]

He was appointed Colonel of the 8th Gurkha Rifles from January 1926,^[23] Colonel of the 2nd battalion 1st Punjab Regiment from November 1932^[24] and honorary Colonel 87th Anti-Tank regiment, Royal Artillery (Devons) from 1941.^[25]

References

↑ "John Francis Stanhope Duke COLERIDGE , Gen., Sir". Coleridge family tree. Retrieved 5 January 2015.
1 2 Wellington College Register 1859-1933, p. 163
↑ The London Gazette: no. 26988. p. 4355. 19 July 1898. Retrieved 2010-05-09.
↑ January 1908 Indian Army List
↑ The Opening of Tibet: An account of Lhasa and the Country and the People of Central Tibet and the progress of the mission sent there by the English Government in the year 1903 to 1904
↑ The London Gazette: no. 28627. p. 5177. 16 July 1912. Retrieved 20 February 2013.
↑ MacMunn, G. & Falls, C., Military operations: Egypt and Palestine, (London 1930), p. 387
↑ Royal Naval Division
↑ London Gazette 3 June 1916
↑ London Gazette 3 June 1918
↑ London Gazette 2 December 1918
↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 32346. p. 4532. 4 June 1921. Retrieved 2010-05-09.
↑ National Archives
1 2 p463, Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes 1944
↑ Orders of Battle
↑ The London Gazette: no. 34289. p. 3448. 29 May 1936. Retrieved 2010-05-09.
↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 34449. p. 6815. 2 November 1937. Retrieved 20 February 2013.
↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 34520. p. 3822. 14 June 1938. Retrieved 20 February 2013.
↑ Major Michael Delme-Radcliffe, Royal Engineers
↑ London Gazette 4 June 1921
↑ London Gazette 1933
↑ London Gazette 11 July 1940
↑ January 1931 Indian Army List
↑ October 1939 Indian Army List
↑ Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes 1944, p. 463

Military offices
Preceded by Sir Sydney Muspratt	Military Secretary to the India Office 1933–1936	Succeeded by Sir Roger Wilson
Preceded by Sir Kenneth Wigram	GOC-in-C, Northern Command, India 1936 – 1940	Succeeded by Sir Alan Hartley

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

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