Edward Coke, 7th Earl of Leicester

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Edward Douglas Coke, 7th Earl of Leicester , CBE , DL , (born May 6, 1936 in Southern Rhodesia , † April 25, 2015 at Holkham Hall , near Wells-next-the-Sea , County Norfolk ) was a British peer and non-party Politician .

Life

Edward Douglas Coke, 7th Earl of Leicester, was the son of Anthony Louis Lovel Coke, 6th Earl of Leicester of Holkham (1909-1994) and his wife Moyra Joan Crossley, Countess of Leicester († 1987) in Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe , born. His father had first attended Norfolk 's prestigious Gresham's School but was dismissed as a difficult and rebellious student. In 1925 he came to Bechuanaland when he was just 17 years old . Edward Coke grew up with his brother on a remote farm with no connection to the electricity grid in what is now South Africa. He attended St. Andrew's College in Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape Province in South Africa . After graduating, he initially worked for a company that manufactured veterinary pharmaceutical products. This was followed by a job at an agricultural research company. Edward Coke returned to Britain at the age of 26. He settled there at the family seat of Holkham Hall, where he took care of the farming and management of the estate.

In 1973 he took over the management and administration of the Holkham Hall family estate . He was responsible for the restoration of Holkham Hall. He put great effort into the renewal, modernization and conversion of the family estate into a modern business enterprise and an extensive tourism company . He ran Holkham Hall (Holkham Hall House and Estate) until his retirement in October 2005. He passed the management on to his son, Thomas Coke .

Coke was also involved in local politics at the community level . He was chairman of King's Lynn & West Norfolk Borough Council (1980-1985) and chairman of the planning committee of King's Lynn & West Norfolk Borough Council (1987-1991). He was a trustee of the North Norfolk Historic Building Trust and the Royal Anglian Regiment. He was President of the Historic Houses Association from 1998 to 2003 . In 2005 he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in recognition of his services to the United Kingdom's national heritage ("for services to Heritage") . In the same year he was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Norfolk . He held this office for two terms.

From September 3, 1976, he carried the courtesy title Viscount Coke . With the death of his father on June 19, 1994 he inherited the title of 7th Earl of Leicester of Holkham in the County of Norfolk and the subordinate title of 7th Viscount Coke . Both titles belong to the Peerage of the United Kingdom and were created in 1837.

Membership in the House of Lords

Inheriting the title of Earl of Leicester, Coke became an official member of the House of Lords on June 12, 1994 . He was a crossbencher in the House of Lords . He was a formal member of the House of Lords from June 12, 1994 to November 11, 1999. In the 1997/98 session he was present on 28 days. His inaugural address in the House of Lords was on February 25, 1998 as part of a debate on the railways in Great Britain. Coke said in the context of the debate that he had led several secondments in the 1980s to lobby the relevant ministers of transport to improve the road and rail network in the county of Norfolk. On March 10, 1999, Coke reiterated the railroad issue in a House of Lords debate. Coke went into the privatization of the state railways and in particular the role of Railtrack .

His membership in the House of Lords ended on November 11, 1999 by the House of Lords Act 1999 . He did not run for election for one of the remaining seats. He was not a member of the Hereditary Peers Association .

Private

Coke was married twice. On April 28, 1962 he married Valeria Phyllis Potter, the daughter of Leonard A. Potter. His wife came from Berkhamsted in the county of Hertford . The marriage ended in divorce in 1985. In 1986 he married Sarah Forde, the daughter of Noel Henry Boys Forde, for the second time. His first marriage had three children, two sons and a daughter.

Edward Coke lived at the family seat of Holkham Hall near Wells-next-the-Sea in Norfolk. There he died at the age of 78 on April 25, 2015 around midnight with his family.

His eldest son Thomas Coke, 8th Earl of Leicester (* 1965) inherited his title of nobility . This is honor Page ( Page of Honor ) by Queen Elizabeth II. And equerry ( Equerry ) from Edward, 2nd Duke of Kent .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Tributes to Lord Leicester - head of the Holkham estate death notice and obituary; itv.com from April 25th. Retrieved April 26, 2015.
  2. ↑ LATEST NEWS: Earl of Leicester dies, aged 78 ( Memento of the original from April 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. LYNN News of April 25, 2015. Retrieved April 26, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lynnnews.co.uk
  3. ^ Holkham Hall and Estate official website. Holkham Hall. Retrieved April 25, 2015
  4. ↑ Anthony Louis Lovel Coke, 6th Earl of Leicester entry in Cracroft's Peerage. Retrieved April 26, 2015
  5. ↑ a b The Railways wording of the speech; Minutes of the House of Lords meeting of February 25, 1998. Retrieved April 25, 2015.
  6. ↑ a b Rail Industry Wording of the speech; Minutes of the House of Lords meeting of March 10, 1999. Retrieved April 25, 2015.
  7. ↑ MEMBERSHIP LIST Hereditary Peerage Association publication ; accessed on February 11, 2015
predecessor Office successor
Anthony Coke Earl of Leicester
1994-2015 		Thomas Coke
personal data
SURNAME Coke, Edward, 7th Earl of Leicester
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leicester, Edward Douglas Coke, 7th Earl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British peer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Southern Rhodesia
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 2015
Place of death Holkham Hall , Wells-next-the-Sea , Norfolk, United Kingdom