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Edward Coke (1758–29 Jul 1836), born Edward Roberts, was a British politician and landowner. Edward was the second son of Wenman Coke and younger brother of Thomas Coke, the celebrated "Coke of Norfolk" and later
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. He was
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in 1819.''The History and Gazetteer of the County of Derby'' Vol 1 (1831) Stephen Glover Appendix p 13 Google Books He married Grace Colhoun in 1792, and they had three children: * Thomas William Coke (born 1793) * Edward Ralph Coke (born 1795) * Eliza Grace Coke (born 1797), married Henry Venables-Vernon, son of
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His principal interests were in
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, where he lived at
Longford Hall Longford Hall is a large country house in Longford, a village in Shropshire, England near the town of Newport. Building history Longford Hall was built in 1275 by Adam de Brompton and owned by the Earl of Shrewsbury. In April 1644 it was capt ...
, and he was Member of Parliament for
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from 1780 until 1817, with a brief interruption in 1807 to substitute for his brother in
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COKE, Edward (1758-1836), of Longford, Derbys. History of Parliament Online
1758 births 1837 deaths British MPs 1780–1784 British MPs 1784–1790 British MPs 1790–1796 British MPs 1796–1800 Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Derby UK MPs 1801–1802 UK MPs 1802–1806 UK MPs 1806–1807 UK MPs 1807–1812 UK MPs 1812–1818 High Sheriffs of Derbyshire Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Derby Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Norfolk {{England-UK-MP-stub