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Hace 1 día · Thomas Coke was created Earl of Leicester in 1744, and in 1752 he and his son and heir Edward alienated their right in Farnham Royal to Francis Godolphin, who in 1766 succeeded his cousin as second Lord Godolphin and died in 1785, leaving the manor to Francis Godolphin Osborne, his great-grandson and second son of the fifth Duke of ...
Hace 3 días · His grandson Thomas Coke, esq. the eldest son of Edward, in 1728, was created baron Lovell, of Minster Lovell, in Oxfordshire; and in 1744, viscount Coke, of Holkham, in Norfolk, and earl of Leicester.
Hace 22 horas · Thomas William Coke 1754–1842 1st Earl of Leicester, 1st Viscount Coke: Henry Somerset 1744–1803 5th Duke of Beaufort, 7th Marquess of Worcester, 11th Earl of Worcester, 13th Baron Herbert, 5th Baron Botetourt: George Townshend 1753–1811 2nd Marquess Townshend, 1st Earl of Leicester: John Frederick Sackville 1745–1799
Hace 3 días · Sir Thomas Coke, was a son of Edward Coke of Holkham. In 1718 he married Lady Margaret Tufton, daughter and co-heir of the 6th Earl of Thanet. In 1728 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Lovel, of Minster Lovel, and in 1744 was created Viscount Coke, of Holkham, and Earl of Leicester.
Hace 5 días · One of the six missionaries who accompanied Thomas Coke to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in 1814, he was born in West Bromwich, the son of Jabez Ault a shoemaker. His ancestors had suffered in the Wednesbury riots of the 1740s and were friends of the Asburys.
Hace 3 días · Biography. Robert de Breteuil was the second son of Robert de Breteuil, earl of Leicester (d.1190) and his wife, Petronilla de Grandmesnil (d.1212), daughter of Guillaume de Grandmesnil. He had an elder brother, William, who died in 1189, making Robert heir to the earldom.
Hace 3 días · Leicester, Earl of. See Sidney, Robert. Leicester House, Leicester Fields, London ... Chief Justice of the King's Bench, later Lord High Treasurer and 1st Earl of Marlborough, 203, 228, 229. -, signs joint letter to Earl of ... Thomas, M.P. for Lincoln, reports on Earl of Salisbury's case for compensation, 424. Lithuania, 92. Little ...
