Henry Nelson Coleridge, an English lawyer and author, nephew of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, born about 1800, died Jan. 26,1843. He was first a scholar at Eton, and became in due course a scholar and subsequently a fellow of King's college, Cambridge, where he received the degree of A. B. in 1823. While in college he won several prizes for Greek and Latin odes, was recognized as a man of superior talent and scholarship, and was associated with Praed, Macaulay, Moultrie, and others of his university, in writing for "Knight's Quarterly Magazine." His papers, which were under the signature of "Joseph Haller," treated chiefly questions of English history, and were distinguished for their soundness of opinion and breadth of view. On account of ill health in 1825 he accompanied his uncle, the bishop of Barbadoes, on a voyage to that island, and on his return published a lively and very successful narrative of his experiences, under the title of "Six Months in the West Indies." He was called to the bar in 1826, and attained a good practice in the court of chancery, but devoted his leisure to an assiduous study of literature, and to the society and conversation of his uncle, S. T. Coleridge, whose daughter he married.

In 1830 he published an "Introduction to the Study of the Greek Classic Poets." A more important task devolved upon him as literary executor of his uncle, and under his care the volumes of the "Table Talk," "Literary Remains," and "Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit" were given to the public. He endured a painful illness during the latter years of his life, and was often prostrated for months, but suffered with a cheerful mind.