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COKE, EDWARD, VISCOUNT COKE, only son of Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester, and Lady Margaret Tufton, third dau. of Thomas Tufton, 6th Earl of Thanet; b. 20 Jun 1719; adm. (aged 9) Mar 1728/9; recited an epigram at the Annual Meeting of 28 Jan 1730/1, and spoke his verses in College Hall at the Westminster Feast of 1734/5 “extremely well” (HMC 9th Report, Appendix ii, 465); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 12 Jun 1735; Grand Tour (Italy) c. 1738-40; MP Norfolk 1741-7, Harwich from 1747; member, Society of Dilettanti 1740/1; m. 1 Apr 1747 Lady Mary Campbell, fifth dau. of John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll (S) and 1st Duke of Greenwich KG KT PC, Field Marshal in the Army; d. 31 Aug 1753.

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

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, 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, 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.

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.

COLBATCH, JOHN, son of John Colbatch, Ludlow, Shropshire, and Jane ---; bapt. 27 Dec 1663; adm.; KS 1680; rejected 1682, but elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1683, adm. pens. 19 Jun 1683, aged 18, scholar 10 Apr 1684; BA 1686/7; MA 1690; BD 1701; DD 1706; Minor Fellow, Trin. Coll., 2 Oct 1689-90, Major Fellow 1 Jul 1690-1715, Senior Fellow from 1715; ordained priest (London) 20 Dec 1691; Chaplain to British Factory, Lisbon 1688 [check]-96; a protege of Gilbert Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury; tutor, Trinity Coll., 1700, Senior Dean 1705-7; travelling tutor in Italy with Earl of Hertford (later 7th Duke of Somerset) 1706; Knightsbridge Professor of Moral Theology, Cambridge, 1707-44; an opponent of Richard Bentley in internal Trinity College disputes, becoming involved in several resulting lawsuits; Prebendary of Salisbury 7 Aug 1702 - res May 1720; Rector of Orwell, Cambs., from 1720; author, three pamphlets; d. 11 Feb 1747/8. DNB.

COLBATCH, JOSEPH; b. 1669; adm. ; KS 1686 (as Colebatch); left 1689; d. 1735. [“see new slip”] [perhaps Rev. Joseph Colbatch, Anglican clergyman, All Hallows parish, Maryland, buried 13 Jan 1734, in Maryland by 1704]

Colborne, Nicholas William Ridley, Baron Colborne, brother of Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bart. (b. 1778, qv); b. 14 Apr 1779; in sixth form list 1796; probably the Ridley who played cricket v. Eton on Hounslow Heath 25 Jul 1796; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 26 Oct 1796; BA 1800; adm. Gray’s Inn 12 Dec 1795, withdrew from Inn 26 Apr 1809 without having been called to bar; assumed additional surname and arms of Colborne 21 Jun 1803; MP Bletchingley 8 May 1805-6, Malmesbury 1806-7, Appleby 20 Jul 1807 – 1812, Thetford 1818-26, Horsham 8 Feb 1827-32, Wells 5 May 1834-7; created Baron Colborne 15 May 1839; a loyal supporter of the Whig party in House of Commons and House of Lords; member, Fine Arts Commission 1841, Metropolitan Improvements Commission 1842; Busby Trustee 13 May 1851; m. 14 Jun 1808 Charlotte, eldest dau. of Thomas Steele (qv); d. 3 May 1854.

COLBURN, ZERAH, sixth child of Abia Colburn, Cabot, Vermont, USA, farmer, and Elizabeth Hills (IGI); b. 1 Sep 1804; adm. 19 Sep 1816 (Du Brieux's); left Whitsun 1819; showed remarkable powers of computation when quite young, which left him on his approach to manhood; exhibited by his father as a mathematical prodigy in America and the United Kingdom prior to his admission to the School; returned to USA 1824; studied at Vermont Univ.; joined Methodist Society at Cabot, Vermont, Dec 1825, and was for nine years an itinerant Methodist preacher; Professor of Languages, Norwich Univ., Vermont, 1835; author, A Memoir of Zerah Colburn written by himself, 1833 (in which he gives some interesting details of his school life, and his strong objections to being fagged); d. at Norwich, Vermont, USA, 2 Mar 1840.