Thomas Coke, 2nd Earl of Leicester

Background

Public life

Family

• Lady Julia Coke she married Mervyn Wingfield, 7th Viscount Powerscourt on 26 April 1864. They have five children. Through their eldest son Mervyn Wingfield, 8th Viscount Powerscourt they are the maternal great-great-grandparents of Sarah, Duchess of York and the great-great-great-grandparents of Princess Eugenie of York wife of Jack Brooksbank.
• Lady Anne Coke she married Maj.-Gen. Edmund Manningham-Buller son of on 16 January 1874. They have two children.
• Lady Gertrude Coke she married Charles Murray, 7th Earl of Dunmore on 5 April 1866. They have six children.
• Thomas William Coke, 3rd Earl of Leicester he married The Honorable Alice White on 26 August 1879. They have five children. Though their eldest daughter Alexandra they are the paternal great-grandparents of James Robert Bruce Ogilvy.
• Lady Mary Coke she married William Legge, 6th Earl of Dartmouth on 18 December 1879. They have five children.
• Lady Winifred Coke she married Robert Clements, 4th Earl of Leitrim on 2 September 1873. They have eight children.
• Lady Margaret Coke she married Henry Strutt, 2nd Baron Belper on 2 May 1874. They have eight children.
• Lady Mildred Coke she married Thomas Anson, 3rd Earl of Lichfield on 5 November 1878. They have six children.
• Lt.-Col. Wenman Coke, died unmarried.

• Major Hon. Richard Coke he married Hon. Doreen O'Brien on 21 December 1907 and they were divorced in 1927. They have five children. He remarried Elizabeth Vera Catherine Alice de Beaumont on 19 July 1932. They have three children.
• Lady Mabel Coke she married James Luddington on 8 August 1929.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Hon. Edward Coke, died unmarried.

• Major Hon. Sir John Spencer Coke he married Hon. Dorothy Lawson on 15 January 1907. They had three children; Celia, Gerald and Rosemary - later Baroness Hamilton of Dalzell. On 27 November 1951 it was reported that, as her Equerry, Sir Jack had accompanied Queen Mary on a visit to the annual exhibition of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters at the Royal Institute Galleries. He was appointed Knight Commander, Royal Victorian Order in 1953 and was Gentleman Usher to King George VI and Extra Gentleman Usher to Queen Elizabeth II. The Hon. Sir Jack and the Hon. Dorothy Coke are the parents of Celia Brooksbank née Coke who is the grandmother of Jack Brooksbank. In 2018, photos were published which revealed that Sir Jack Coke's daughter - Celia Brooksbank - had been a guest at Hall Barn Estate, the family seat where her great grandfather, Edward Levy-Lawson, 1st Baron Burnham had enjoyed many shooting parties with King Edward VII.
• Captain Hon. Reginald Coke he married Katharine Ryder on 17 July 1924. They have two daughters.
• Hon. Henry Coke.
• Commander Hon. Lovel William Coke, died unmarried.