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Coke, Edward, 1719-1753
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1719-1753
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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.
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GB 2014
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.