Social Victorians/People/Leicester

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Also Known As[edit | edit source]

  • Family name: Coke
  • Earl of Leicester
    • Thomas William Coke, 2nd Earl (30 June 1842 – 24 January 1909)[1]
  • 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)[2]
      • Thomas William Coke, 3rd Earl of Leicester (20 July 1848 – 24 January 1909)[3]
    • Viscountess Coke
      • Alice Emily White Coke (26 August 1879 – 24 January 1909)

Acquaintances, Friends and Enemies[edit | edit source]

Timeline[edit | edit source]

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

1843 April 20, Thomas William Coke and Juliana Whitbread married.[4]

1870, Juliana Whitbread Coke died.[4]

1875 August 26, Thomas William Coke (2nd Earl) and Georgina Caroline Cavendish married.[5]

1879 August 26, Thomas William Coke (3rd Earl) and Alice Emily White married.[6]

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.[7]

Costumes at the Duchess of Devonshire's 2 July 1897 Fancy-dress Ball[edit | edit source]

Black-and-white photograph of the head and torso of a woman with black and white plumes in her hair
Alice Emily, Viscountess Coke. ©National Portrait Gallery, London.

Georgina Cavendish Coke, Countess of Leicester[edit | edit source]

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."[8] Did the Earl of Leicester attend?

Alice Emily White Coke, Viscountess Coke[edit | edit source]

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."[9]:p. 34, Col. 3a, p. 36, Col. 1b

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.[10] The printing on the portrait says, "Viscountess Coke," with a Long S in Viscountess.[11]

Lady Mabel Coke[edit | edit source]

Lady Mabel Coke (at 644) was dressed as a "woodland nymph, in "white chiffon and field flowers and grasses."[9]:p. 40, Col. 2a

Demographics[edit | edit source]

  • Nationality: British[2]

Residences[edit | edit source]

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

Family[edit | edit source]

  • Thomas William Coke, 2nd Earl of Leicester (26 December 1822 – 24 January 1909)[1]
  • Juliana Whitbread Coke (1825 – 21 April 1870)[4]
  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)[5]
  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)[12]
  • Alice Emily White Coke (1855 – 24 April 1936)[6]
  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[edit | edit source]

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

Footnotes[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Thomas William Coke, 2nd Earl of Leicester of Holkham." "Person Page". thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2021-05-16.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Thomas Coke, 2nd Earl of Leicester". Wikipedia. 2021-02-28. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Coke,_2nd_Earl_of_Leicester&oldid=1009369955. 
  3. ↑ "Thomas Coke, 3rd Earl of Leicester". Wikipedia. 2021-05-11. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Coke,_3rd_Earl_of_Leicester&oldid=1022659576. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Juliana Whitbread." "Person Page". thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2021-05-16.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Hon. Georgina Caroline Cavendish." "Person Page". thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2021-05-16.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Hon. Alice Emily White." "Person Page". thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2021-05-16.
  7. ↑ "Lady Mabel Coke." "Person Page". thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2021-05-30. https://thepeerage.com/p1677.htm#i16770.
  8. ↑ “The Devonshire House Ball. A Brilliant Gathering.” The Pall Mall Gazette 3 July 1897, Saturday: 7 [of 10], Col. 2a–3a. British Newspaper Archive https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000098/18970703/019/0007.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 “The Duchess of Devonshire’s Ball.” The Gentlewoman 10 July 1897 Saturday: 32–42 [of 76], Cols. 1a–3c [of 3]. British Newspaper Archive https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003340/18970710/155/0032.
  10. ↑ "Devonshire House Fancy Dress Ball (1897): photogravures by Walker & Boutall after various photographers." 1899. National Portrait Gallery https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait-list.php?set=515.
  11. ↑ "Alice Emily (née White), Countess of Leicester when Viscountess Coke." Diamond Jubilee Fancy Dress Ball. National Portrait Gallery https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw158452/Alice-Emily-ne-White-Countess-of-Leicester-when-Viscountess-Coke.
  12. ↑ "Thomas William Coke, 3rd Earl of Leicester of Holkham." "Person Page". thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2021-05-16.
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