Thomas William Coke 1st Earl of Leicester 1697-1759

Around 1696 [his father] Edward Coke [aged 17] and [his mother] Carey Newton [aged 15] were married. They were third cousins.

On 17th June 1697 Thomas William Coke 1st Earl of Leicester was born to Edward Coke [aged 19] and Carey Newton [aged 17].

On 13th April 1707 [his father] Edward Coke [aged 29] died.

On 4th August 1707 [his mother] Carey Newton [aged 27] died.

On 3rd July 1718 Thomas William Coke 1st Earl of Leicester [aged 21] and Margaret Tufton Countess Leicester [aged 18] were married. She the daughter of Thomas Tufton 6th Earl of Thanet [aged 73] and Catherine Cavendish Countess Isle Thanet. They were fourth cousin twice removed.

On 2nd February 1719 [his son] Edward Coke was born to Thomas William Coke 1st Earl of Leicester [aged 21] and [his wife] Margaret Tufton Countess Leicester [aged 18]. He married 1st April 1747 Mary Campbell, daughter of John Campbell 2nd Duke Argyll and Jane Warburton Duchess of Argyll.

On 28th May 1728 Thomas William Coke 1st Earl of Leicester [aged 30] was created 1st Baron Lovel of Minster Lovell. [his wife] Margaret Tufton Countess Leicester [aged 27] by marriage Baroness Lovel of Minster Lovell.

On 3rd August 1734 [his wife] Margaret Tufton Countess Leicester [aged 34] abeyance terminated 19th Baroness de Clifford when she became the only living descendant of her father.

On 16th May 1736 John Leveson-Gower 1st Earl Gower [aged 41] and [his sister-in-law] Mary Tufton Countess Gower were married. She by marriage Baroness Gower. She the daughter of [his father-in-law] Thomas Tufton 6th Earl of Thanet and Catherine Cavendish Countess Isle Thanet. They were fourth cousins.

On 9th May 1744 Thomas William Coke 1st Earl of Leicester [aged 46] was created 1st Earl of Leicester. [his wife] Margaret Tufton Countess Leicester [aged 43] by marriage Countess of Leicester.

On 8th July 1746 John Leveson-Gower 1st Earl Gower [aged 51] was created 1st Earl Gower. [his sister-in-law] Mary Tufton Countess Gower by marriage Countess Gower.

On 1st April 1747 Edward Coke [aged 28] and Mary Campbell [aged 20] were married. She the daughter of John Campbell 2nd Duke Argyll and Jane Warburton Duchess of Argyll. He the son of Thomas William Coke 1st Earl of Leicester [aged 49] and Margaret Tufton Countess Leicester [aged 46].

On 22nd March 1757 [his sister-in-law] Anne Tufton Countess of Salisbury died.

On 20th April 1759 Thomas William Coke 1st Earl of Leicester [aged 61] died. Earl of Leicester and Baron Lovel of Minster Lovell extinct. Wenman Roberts aka Coke [aged 42] inherited his estates.

On 31st August 1753 [his son] Edward Coke [aged 34] died.

Monument in Church of St Mary the Virgin, Tittleshall [Map] commissioned by wife and mother Margaret Tufton Countess Leicester [aged 58]. Erected in 1760. Sculpted by Charles Atkinson. Gadrooned sarcophagus on pedestal with a carved and painted achievement above surrounded by extravagant mantling. Flanked by pair of composite columns supporting a dentilated pediment. Carved bust figures to the sides of the Earl and Countess by Louis Francois Roubiliac [aged 56].

Edward Coke: On 2nd February 1719 he was born to Thomas William Coke 1st Earl of Leicester and Margaret Tufton Countess Leicester. On 1st April 1747 Edward Coke and Mary Campbell were married. She the daughter of John Campbell 2nd Duke Argyll and Jane Warburton Duchess of Argyll. He the son of Thomas William Coke 1st Earl of Leicester and Margaret Tufton Countess Leicester.

In 1774 Pompeo Batoni [aged 65]. Portrait of Thomas William Coke 1st Earl of Leicester.

On 28th February 1775 [his former wife] Margaret Tufton Countess Leicester [aged 74] died. Baron de Clifford abeyant. The co-heirs were her great-nephew Edward Southwell 20th Baron Clifford [aged 36] [who succeeded in 1776], grandson of her sister [his former sister-in-law] Catherine Tufton, her nephew James Cecil 6th Earl of Salisbury [aged 61], son her sister Anne Tufton Countess of Salisbury, her sister Mary Tufton Countess Gower, and her niece Isabella Powlett Countess Egmont, daughter of her sister Isabella Tufton.

1815. Ramsay Richard Reinagle [aged 38]. Portrait of Thomas William Coke 1st Earl of Leicester.

In 1820 John Francis [aged 39] exhibited a bust of Thomas William Coke 1st Earl of Leicester at the Royal Academy.