Wenman Coke

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Wenman Clarence Walpole Coke (born July 13, 1828 ; died January 10, 1907 ) was a British military man and politician.

biography

Wenman Coke was the fourth son of the agrarian reformer and politician Thomas William Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester , and his second wife, Lady Anne Amelia Keppel. His older brother was Thomas Coke, 2nd Earl of Leicester , who received the title of nobility from his father. Coke was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Scots Guards and fought as a soldier in the Crimean War . In 1851 he played in a first-class cricket match for the Marylebone Cricket Club against Oxford University .

In 1858 he was representative of the Liberal Party member of the House of Commons for the constituency of Norfolk East and remained so until 1865. He died unmarried in 1907 at the age of 78.

Dedication

Skull of Alcelaphus cokii , drawing from the first description in 1884

In 1884, the German zoologist Albert Günther described a species of hartebeest on the basis of a skull that he received from Wenman Coke a few years earlier. He shot the animal in what is now Tanzania on a trip to the Mpwapwa Mountains. Günther described the antelope as a new species under the name Alcelaphus cokii . The antelope was long classified as a subspecies of the North African hartebeest as Alcelaphus buselaphus cokii , but is now again considered an independent species.

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b c “Coke” In: Bo Beolens, Michael Grayson, Michael Watkins: The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009; P. 82; ISBN 978-0-8018-9304-9 .
  2. ^ A b Albert Günther : Note on some East-African antelopes supposed to be new. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History; Zoology, Botany, and Geology 15 (series 5), 1884; Pp. 425-429. ( Digitized version ).
  3. ↑ Øystein Flagstad, Per Ole Syvertsen, Nils Chr. Stenseth and Kjetill S. Jakobsen: Environmental change and rates of evolution: the phylogeographic pattern within the hartebeest complex as related to climatic variation. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 268, 2001, pp. 667-677. doi : 10.1098 / rspb.2000.1416
  4. ↑ Colin P. Groves and David M. Leslie Jr .: Family Bovidae (Hollow-horned Ruminants). In: Don E. Wilson and Russell A. Mittermeier (eds.): Handbook of the Mammals of the World. Volume 2: Hooved Mammals. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona 2011, ISBN 978-84-96553-77-4 , p. 696.
personal data
SURNAME Coke, Wenman
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Coke, Wenman Clarence Walpole (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British military and politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1828
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 1907