Anthony Coke, 6th Earl of Leicester

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Anthony Louis Lovel Coke, 6th Earl of Leicester, of Holkham Hall, Norfolk, England (11 September 1909–19 June 1994) was a British peer.

Contents 1 Background 2 Career 3 Family 4 References

[edit] Background

Coke was the son of the Hon. Arthur George Coke, killed in action in the Great War, 1915, second son of Thomas Coke, 3rd Earl of Leicester, and of Phyllis Hermione, daughter of Francis Saxham Elwes Drury. He was educated at Gresham's School, Holt.

[edit] Career

During the Second World War, Coke served in the Royal Air Force. After the war, he became a rancher in Africa before succeeding his cousin as Earl of Leicester in 1976.

[edit] Family

He married firstly, in 1934, Moyra Joan, daughter of Douglas Crossley, and with her had two sons and one daughter (divorced, 1947); secondly, in Rhodesia in 1947, Vera Haigh (died 1984); thirdly, in 1985, Elizabeth Hope Johnstone, daughter of Clifford Arthur Johnstone, of Addo, Eastern Province, South Africa.

He was succeeded by his son Edward Coke, 7th Earl of Leicester.

[edit] References

• Who's Who 1993 (A. & C. Black, London, 1993)
• thepeerage.com

Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Thomas Coke	Earl of Leicester 1976-1994	Succeeded by Edward Coke