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Robert Coke (18th Century MP)
Robert Coke may refer to: *Robert Coke (Coventry MP) (1587β1653), MP for Coventry 1614β1621 and Fowey 1624 *Sir Robert Coke, 2nd Baronet (1645β1688), MP for Derbyshire *Robert Coke (King's Lynn MP) (1651β1679), MP for King's Lynn 1675β1679 *Robert Coke (18th-century MP), Whig politician in Norfolk (UK Parliament constituency), Norfolk 1734 *Robert Coke (investor) (born 1972), British investor See also *Robert Cooke (other) *Robert Cook (other) *Coke (other) {{hndis, Coke, Robert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Coke (Coventry MP)
Sir Robert Coke (1587 β 19 July 1653) of Caludon Castle, Coventry, Huntingfield, Suffolk, and Epsom, Surrey, was an English politician. Life He was the second son of Sir Edward Coke and his wife, Bridget Paston, daughter of John Paston (MP), becoming his father's heir when the eldest son Edward died as an infant. He was knighted in 1607. After marrying Theophila, daughter of Thomas Berkeley (1575β1611), Sir Thomas Berkeley, he resided at Caludon Castle, owned by his wife's family the Berkeleys, and was elected to parliament for Coventry (UK Parliament constituency), Coventry, in the vicinity, in 1614. That year he was the dedicatee of a mathematics book by William Bedwell, based on a work by Lazarus SchΓΆner. In summer 1617, when Frances Coke, Viscountess Purbeck, Frances Coke was defying her father Sir Edward's wishes over a marriage, she was sent to her brother Sir Robert at Kingston upon Thames. This was one step in a complex story mostly played out along the River Thame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |