NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Coke, Thomas William, Earl of Leicester, 1752-1842 NRA: Coke, Thomas William (1754-1842) 1st Earl of Leicester DNB: Coke, Thomas William, first earl of Leicester of Holkham (1754-1842), politician and agriculturist LBT ID: LdLeice1 VIAF ID: 8145335 LOC ID: n87934927 | B/BAP: 1754-05-06 DIED: 1842-06-30 |
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Whig MP for Norfolk (1776-84, 1790-1807, 1807-32) and Derby (1807); an agricultural
reformer, he was a follower of Charles James Fox raised to the peerage in 1837. | |