The Coke baronetcy of

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, in the County of Derby was created in the

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on 30 December 1641 for Edward Coke. He was the grandson of

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, Lord Chief Justice. His father Clement, youngest son of Sir Edward, acquired by marriage the

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estate in Derbyshire. Coke served as high sheriff of Derbyshire in 1646. His son the second Baronet was

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for

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in 1685. The baronetcy was extinct on the death of the third Baronet in 1727. The Longford estate passed into the ownership of the senior branch of the Coke family of

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, represented by the

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Coke of Longford (1641)

* Sir Edward Coke, 1st Baronet (died 1669) * Sir Robert Coke, 2nd Baronet (1645–1688) * Sir Edward Coke, 3rd Baronet (1648–1727)

References

* ''A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England Ireland and Scotland'' Burke and Burke (1844) p 123 Google Books * {{Rayment-bt, date=March 2012 Extinct baronetcies in the Baronetage of England 1641 establishments in England