Social Victorians/People/Leicester

Also Known As

• Family name: Coke
• Earl of Leicester
  • Thomas William Coke, 2nd Earl (30 June 1842 – 24 January 1909)
• Countess of Leicester
  • Juliana Whitbread (20 April 1843 – 21 April 1870)
  • Georgina Caroline Cavendish Coke (26 August 1875 – 1909)
• Viscount Coke is a subsidiary title granted to the eldest son and heir presumptive of the Earl of Leister.
  • Viscount Coke
    • Thomas William Coke, 2nd Earl (1837 – 30 June 1842)
    • Thomas William Coke, 3rd Earl of Leicester (20 July 1848 – 24 January 1909)
  • Viscountess Coke
    • Alice Emily White Coke (26 August 1879 – 24 January 1909)

Timeline

1842, Thomas William Coke succeeded to the Earldom of Leicester.

1843 April 20, Thomas William Coke and Juliana Whitbread married.

1870, Juliana Whitbread Coke died.

1875 August 26, Thomas William Coke (2nd Earl) and Georgina Caroline Cavendish married.

1879 August 26, Thomas William Coke (3rd Earl) and Alice Emily White married.

1897 July 2, Friday, Georgina Cavendish Coke, Countess of Leicester, attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball, as did Alice Emily White Coke, Viscountess Coke.

1929 August 8, Lady Mabel Coke and James Little Luddington married.

Costumes at the Duchess of Devonshire's 2 July 1897 Fancy-dress Ball

Alice Emily, Viscountess Coke. ©National Portrait Gallery, London.

Georgina Cavendish Coke, Countess of Leicester

At the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball, Georgina Cavendish Coke, Countess of Leicester (at 516) "came in white satin as a Venetian lady." Did the Earl of Leicester attend?

Alice Emily White Coke, Viscountess Coke

Alice Emily White Coke, Viscountess Coke, is at 643; Viscount Coke is not listed has having attended, but did he? Lady Coke came in 18th-century dress, wearing a "gown in black and white glacé."

Alexander Bassano's portrait of "Alice Emily (née White), Countess of Leicester when Viscountess Coke" in costume is photogravure #93 in the album presented to the Duchess of Devonshire and now in the National Portrait Gallery. The printing on the portrait says, "Viscountess Coke," with a Long S in Viscountess.

Lady Mabel Coke

Lady Mabel Coke (at 644) was dressed as a "woodland nymph, in "white chiffon and field flowers and grasses."

Demographics

• Nationality: British

Residences

• Holkham Hall, North Norfolk (near Holkham and Wells-next-the-Sea)

Family

• Thomas William Coke, 2nd Earl of Leicester (26 December 1822 – 24 January 1909)
• Juliana Whitbread Coke (1825 – 21 April 1870)

1. Julia Coke Wingfield (1844 – 7 August 1931)
2. Anne Coke Manningham-Buller (1845 – 23 January 1876)
3. Gertrude Coke Murray (1847 – 28 November 1943)
4. Thomas William Coke, 3rd Earl of Leicester (20 July 1848 – 19 November 1941)
5. Mary Coke Legge (1849 – 28 December 1929)
6. Winifred Coke Clements (1851 – 22 March 1940)
7. Margaret Coke Strutt (24 April 1852 – 2 August 1922)
8. Mildred Coke Anson (1854 – 12 May 1941)
9. Wenman Coke (20 November 1855 – 30 May 1931)

• Georgina Caroline Cavendish Coke (c. 1853 – 26 February 1937)

1. Richard Coke (20 August 1876 – 14 June 1964)
2. Edward Coke (17 October 1879 – 4 September 1944)
3. John Spencer Coke (30 September 1880 – 23 December 1957)
4. Reginald Coke (10 November 1883 – 30 April 1969)
5. Lovel William Coke (19 August 1893 – 16 March 1966)
6. Mabel Coke Luddington (c. 1895 – 29 January 1967)

• Thomas William Coke, 3rd Earl of Leicester (20 July 1848 – 19 November 1941)
• Alice Emily White Coke (1855 – 24 April 1936)

1. Thomas William Coke, 4th Earl of Leicester of Holkham (9 July 1880 – 21 August 1949)
2. Arthur George Coke (6 April 1882 – 21 May 1915)
3. Marjory Alice Coke (1884 – 24 December 1946)
4. Roger Coke (28 December 1886 – 14 October 1960)
5. Alexandra Marie Bridget Coke (1891 – 1984)

Questions and Notes

1. Neither the Earl of Leicester nor Viscount Coke are listed as having attended the ball, but did they?