COKER, HEARST, second son of Rev. Thomas Coker, Bicester, Oxfordshire, Canon Residentiary of Salisbury, and Mary, dau. of William Hearst, Salisbury; b.; adm.; KS (aged 14) 1715; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1719, matr. 28 May 1719, but died before his admission as a Westminster Student; adm. Inner Temple 16 Apr 1719; d. 5 Nov 1719.

COKE, SIR WILLIAM, brother of D’Ewes Coke (qv); bapt. South Normanton, Derbs., 12 Feb 1776 (IGI); adm.; KS (aged 13) 1790; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1794, matr. 18 Jun 1794, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1794 - void 25 Jun 1806; BA 1798; MA 1801; adm. to Lincoln’s Inn 1 Feb 1798, called to bar 15 May 1801; Procurator Fiscal, Ceylon, 1808-9; Puisne Judge, Ceylon, 6 Oct 1809, later Chief Justice; knighted 25 May 1815; d. unm. at Trincomalee 1 Sep 1818, aged 42.

COKE, THOMAS; b.; adm. (aged 9) Jan 1750/1 (Gibson's); left 1752. [Presumably Thomas Coke, son of Edward Coke, and Catherine (Hales ?), bapt. St. Botolph, Bishopsgate, London 30 Sep 1741]

COKE, REGINALD HENRY, eldest son of Henry Coke, President Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, merchant; b. 11 May 1863; adm. as exhibitioner (J) 31 May 1877; QS 1878; left 1882; Trinity Hall, Cambridge, matr. Mich. 1882; rowed against Oxford 1885; LLB and BA 1885; called to bar, Inner Temple 17 Nov 1885; Northern Circuit; Senior Resident Magistrate, Jamaica, 1890; drowned on his passage out to the West Indies, 14 Nov 1891. [mother perhaps Jane – (IGI)]

COKE, GEORGE; b. ; adm. ; KS 1542-4 (Chapter Muniments).

COKE, D’EWES, eldest son of Rev. D’Ewes Coke, Brookhill Hall, Derbs. [check], Rector of Pinxton and of South Normanton, Derbs., and Hannah, dau. of George Heywood, Brimmington [check], Derbs.; b. 22 Dec 1774; adm. 13 Sep 1787; KS 1788; Glasgow Univ.; Trinity Hall, Cambridge, adm. pens. 20 Jan 1792, matr. Lent 1793; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 18 May 1789, called to bar 22 Jun 1797; Deputy Recorder of Grantham, 13 Mar 1803; Recorder of Newark; agent for Derbyshire estates of Duke of Rutland; of Brookhill Hall, Notts. [check]; DL JP Derbyshire, JP Notts.; m. 2 Nov 1797 Harriet, second dau. of Thomas Wright, Mapperley Hall, Notts.; d. 11 Mar 1856.

COKE, CLEMENT, only son of Robert Coke, Epsom, Surrey, and his cousin Theophila, youngest dau. of Arthur Coke, Bramfield, Suffolk; b.; adm.; KS 1673; d. 8 Aug 1674, aged 17. Buried in North Cloister, Westminster Abbey.

Cohen, Vivian Morris; b. March 22, 1877; adm. May 8, 1891 (H); left Dec. 1893; Univ. Coll. London.

Cohen, Nicholas (abandoned other forenames by Deed Poll), son of Solly Morris Cohen FRCS and Cecile, d. of Max Rieck of Cape Town, South Africa; b. 9 Apr. 1938; adm. Sept. 1951 (W); left July 1956; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1956, BA 1959 (1st class hons Nat. Sci. Tripos), MA 1967; Guy’s Hosp. Med. Sch., MB BChir 1962, MD 1974; MRCP 1968, FRCP (Ed) 1985, FRCP 1986; med. superintendent St James’s Hosp. Lesotho 1969-71; lecturer Dept. of Community Health, Univ. of Nottingham, 1972-5; WHO epidemiologist (smallpox eradication) Ethiopia 1975-6; in charge of health care depts Bangladesh 1979-86; WHO Geneva, Switzerland 1987-; resident in Victoria, BC, Canada; m. 1st, 1965 Veronica Susan, d. of Col. Beecher; 2nd, Nancy Jamieson; d. 15 Sept. 2010.

Cohen (subsequently Croft), Ivor John, son of Oswald Hamilton Croft and Augusta Doris, d. of A. Phillips; b. 6 Jan. 1923; adm. Sept. 1936 (H); left July 1939; re­adm. May 1940; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1941; temp. June admin. officer FO 1942-5; BA 1945, MA 1948; asst. teacher LCC 1949-51; assumed the name of Croft in lieu of Cohen 1959; Children’s Dept. Home Office 1952-66, sen. res. officer 1966-72, head of res. unit 1972-83; Criminological Scientific Council, Council of Europe, 1978-83, chmn. 1981-3; CBE 1982; a painter in oils.