Frederick Coleridge Mackarness

Frederic(k) Michael Coleridge Mackarness (31 August 1854 – 23 December 1920) born at Tardebigge, Saint Bartholomew, Worcestershire, England was a British barrister, judge and Liberal politician and Member of Parliament for the Newbury constituency. Family and education Mackarness was the son of the Right Reverend John Fielder Mackarness, who was Bishop of Oxford from 1870 to 1888 and Alethea Buchanan Coleridge. He was educated at Marlborough College and Keble College, Oxford. In 1882 he married Amy Chermside, the daughter of an Anglican vicar . They do not appear to have had children. Amy Mackarness died in 1916. Career Mackarness went in for the law and was called to the Bar at the Middle Temple in 1879. He practised as an advocate of the Cape Supreme Court for some years, was appointed Revising Barrister for Harrow, Middlesex in 1889 and for London in the same year – Revising Barristers were Counsel of not less than three years standing (and from 1873, of not less than seven years' standing) appointed to revise the lists of parliamentary voters. He was appointed Recorder of Newbury in 1894 and was Professor of Roman-Dutch Law at University College, London from 1905 to 1906. In 1911, he was given a County Court judgeship in Sussex. Politics Liberal politics were a part of Mackarness' family. His sister Mary was married to Bernard Coleridge, another barrister of the Middle Temple, who was Liberal MP for Sheffield Attercliffe from 1885 to 1894. His father was also a Liberal and his appointment as Bishop of Oxford was on the recommendation of William E. Gladstone.