Family and Education
b. 6 May 1754, 1st s. of Wenman Coke† of Longford, Derbys. and 2nd w. Elizabeth, da. of George Chamberlayne† (afterwards Denton) of Hillesden, Bucks. educ. Eton 1765-71; grand tour 1771-4. m. (1) 5 Oct. 1775, his cos. Jane (d. 2 June 1800), da. of James Lennox Dutton (formerly Naper) of Loughcrew, co. Meath, 3da.; (2) 26 Feb. 1822, Lady Anne Amelia Keppel, da. of William Charles, 4th earl of Albemarle, 5s. 1da. suc. fa. 1776; cr. earl of Leicester of Holkham 12 Aug. 1837. d. 30 June 1842.
Offices Held
Member, bd. of agriculture 1793.
Maj. commdt. Holkham yeomanry 1798, capt. 1803; lt.-col. W. Norf. yeoman cav. 1804.
Parlimentarian
Main residence: Holkham, Norf.
Notes
A.M.W. Stirling, Coke of Norfolk and his Friends (1912) gives a partisan account of Coke’s life. For reappraisals of Coke’s role as an agricultural reformer, see R.A.C. Parker, ‘Coke of Norfolk and the Agrarian Revolution’, EcHR, viii (1955), 155-66, and Coke of Norfolk (1975); R.E. Prothero, English Farming Past and Present ed. G.E. Fussell and O.R. Macgregor (1961); S. Wade Martins, A Great Estate at Work: the Holkham estate and its inhabitants in 19th Cent. (1980).
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Commons 1820-1832
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COKE, Thomas William I (1754-1842)
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