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 DEBRETT'S ILLUSTRATED PEERAGE, 267 He is prudent who is patient. LEICESTER, EARL OF. (COKE.) THOMAS WILLIAM COKE, K.G., 2nd Earl, Lord Lieut, and Gustos Rotulorum of Norfolk. Born Dec. 26th, 1822; was educated at Eton ; succeeded his father in 1842 ; appointed a Member of the Council of the Prince cf Wales, and Keeper of the Privy Seal 1866 : married 1st (1843) Ju- liana, who died 1870, eldest daughter of Samuel Charles Whitbread, Esq., of Ampthill, Bedfordshire, and has issue, living, Sonx, Thomas William, Viscount Coke, b. 1848 ; educated at Harrow ; appointed Ensign and Lieut. Scots Fusilier Guards 1868, and Lieut, and Capt. 1871. Wenman, b. 1855. Daughters, Julia, b. 1844, m. 1864, the 7th Viscount Powerscourt. Anne, *. 1845, m. 1874, (Duller). Gertrude, b. 1847, m. 1866, the 7th Earl of Dunmore. Mary, b. 184Q. Winifred, b. 1851, m. 1873, (Clements). Margaret, b. 1852, m. 1874, (Strutt, eldest son of Baron Helper). Mildred, b. 1854. His lordship married 2ndly (1875), the Hon. Georgiana Cavendish, eldest daughter of the 2nd Baron Chesham. Brothers living, Edward Keppel Wentworth, b. 1824, m. 1851. Henry John, b. 1827, m. 1861. Wenman Clarence Walpole, b. 1828. Patron of nine livings, Billingford, R. Castle Acre, V. Waterden, R. Flitcham, V. Holkham, V. Kempston, V. TittleshaU, R. Warham St. Mary, and Warham All Saints, R. Norfolk. Creation, Earl of Leicester and Viscount Coke, in the peerage of the United King- dom, 1837. Srms, Per pale, gules and azure : three eagles displayed, argent, (frest, On a cha- peau, azure, turned up ermine, an ostrich, argent, holding in its mouth a horse-shoe. S-upportcrs, On either side an ostrich, argent, that on the dexter gorged with a ducal co- ronet, per pale, gules and azure, line reflexecl over the back of the first ; that on the sinister gorged with a like coronet, per pale, azure and gules, and line reflexed over the back, azure. Seat, Holkham, Norfolk. Town Residence, ig, Grosvenor- square, W. LEICESTER, Earl of, His lordship's predecessor was his father, Thomas William Coke, Esq. 1st Earl of Leicester, b. May 6, 1754; he was, in 1837, raised to the peerage as Viscount Coke and Earl of Leicester; m. 1st, Oct. 5, 1775, Jane, daughter of James L. Dutton, Esq. and sister to the 1st Baron Sherborne, (she d. 1800)* having issue, three (laughters ; his lordship m. 2ndly, Feb. 26, 1822, Anne, daughter of the 4th Earl of Albemarle ; and d. June 30, 1842, having issue by second marriage, five sons and a daughter. Her ladyship d. in 1844, having remarried in 1843, the late Right Hon. E. Ellice, M.P. LEIGH, BARON. (LEIGH.) WILLIAM HENRY LEIGH, LL.D., 2nd Baron, Lord Lieut, and Gustos Rotulorum of Warwickshire. Born Jan. 17th, 1824; succeeded his father in 1850; was edu- cated at Harrow, and at Trinity College, Cambridge, (Hon. LL.D. 1864) ; is High Steward of Sutton Coldfield, Warwick- shire, a Trustee and a Member of the Governing Body of Rugby School, and a Magistrate for Gloucestershire ; was Captain of the Warwickshire Yeomanry All comes from God. CaVa1 ^' 1852 - 6 ' h&S be(m H n ' Co1 ' f