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Edward Coke was born on 1 February 1552 [12] in his father's manor of Mileham [13] in Norfolk (acquired by him in 1553) [14] one of eight children. The other seven were daughters – Winifred, Dorothy, Elizabeth, Ursula, Anna, Margaret and Ethelreda – although it is not known in which order the children were born. [ 15 ]
Edward Coke, Viscount Coke (2 February 1719 – 31 August 1753), styled The Hon. Edward Coke from 1728 to 1744, was a British Member of Parliament. He represented Norfolk in Parliament from 1741 to 1747 and Harwich from 1747 to his death.
The Holkham Estate was built up by Sir Edward Coke, the founder of his family's fortune. He bought Neales manor in 1609, though never lived there, and made many other purchases of land in Norfolk to endow to his six sons. His fourth son, John, inherited the land and married heiress Meriel Wheatley in 1612.
Edward Douglas Coke, 7th Earl of Leicester, CBE, DL (6 May 1936 – 25 April 2015 [1]), styled Viscount Coke between 1976 and 1994, was a British nobleman. The Earl was one of Norfolk's leading figures and played a key role in preserving and modernising the Holkham estate, Holkham Hall, over 40 years.
Thomas William Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester (6 May 1754 – 30 June 1842), [2] known as Coke of Norfolk or Coke of Holkham, [3] was a British politician and agricultural reformer. Born to Wenman Coke , Member of Parliament (MP) for Derby , and his wife Elizabeth, Coke was educated at several schools, including Eton College , before undertaking a ...
In 1837 the titles held by his great-uncle were revived when Coke was raised to the Peerage of the United Kingdom as Viscount Coke and Earl of Leicester, of Holkham in the County of Norfolk. This was despite the fact that the 1784 creation of the earldom held by the Townshend family was then still extant (then "usurped" by John Dunn-Gardner ...
Lieutenant-Colonel Hon. Edward Coke (17 October 1879 – 4 September 1944), died unmarried. Thomas Coke, second Earl of Leicester, by Leslie Ward, 1883. Major Hon. Sir John (Jack) Spencer Coke (30 September 1880 – 23 December 1957), he married Hon. Dorothy Lawson (daughter of Harry Lawson, 1st Viscount Burnham) on 15 January 1907
Thomas Edward Coke, 8th Earl of Leicester (born 6 July 1965), is the son of Edward Coke, 7th Earl of Leicester, and Valeria Phyllis Potter. He is the current Earl of Leicester . From 1994 to 2015, when he succeeded into the earldom, he was styled Viscount Coke .