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Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester, KB (17 June 1697 – 20 April 1759) was an English land-owner and patron of the arts. ... He married Lady Margaret Tufton, 19th Baroness de Clifford, 3rd daughter of Thomas Tufton, 6th Earl of Thanet by his wife Lady Catherine Cavendish.
Early life. Lord Leicester was the son of Anthony Coke, 6th Earl of Leicester, and Moyra Joan Crossley, Countess of Leicester.Born in 1936 in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) where his father had settled as a young man before inheriting his title and estate, he spent much of his childhood on a remote farm in South Africa.His grandfather, a younger son of the 3rd Earl of Leicester, had been ...
12 de oct. de 2022 · Thomas William Coke was the great-nephew of the first Thomas Coke through the marriage of Thomas’s sister Anne. Following the death of Thomas Coke’s only child, Edward, in 1753, Anne and her family became the apparent successors to the Holkham estate, though they would not inherit until 1774, following the death of Thomas’s widow, Lady Margaret, Countess of Leicester.
14 de dic. de 2017 · Death: January 24, 1909 (86) Holkham Hall, Walsingham district, Norfolk. Immediate Family: Son of Thomas William Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester and Anne Amelia Ellice. Husband of Juliana Coke, Countess of Leicester of Holkham and Georgiana Caroline Coke, Countess of Leicester. Father of Lady Margaret Belper (Coke); Julia Wingfield, Viscountess ...
Thomas William Coke, 3rd Earl of Leicester, known as Viscount Coke until 1909, was a British peer and soldier. Edward John Stanley, 18th Earl of Derby ,, styled Lord Stanley from 1938 to 1948, was a British peer, landowner and businessman.
In 1837 Coke was created earl of Leicester of Holkham. Leicester, who was a strong and handsome man and a fine sportsman, died at Longford Hall in Derbyshire on the 30th of June 1842. He was twice married, and Thomas William, his son by his second marriage, succeeded to his earldom. See A. M. W. Stirling, Coke of Norfolk and his Friends (1907).
Thomas William Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester (6 May 1754 – 30 June 1842), known as Coke of Norfolk or Coke of Holkham, 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 Grand Tour of Europe. He returned to Britain and married ...
