The Hon. Wenman Clarence Walpole Coke (13 July 1828 – 10 January 1907) was a British soldier and

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Background

Coke was the fourth son of the agricultural reformer Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester ("Coke of Norfolk"), by his second wife Lady Anne Emilia, daughter of

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Military and political career

Coke was a

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in the

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and fought in the

Crimean War The Crimean War, , was fought from October 1853 to February 1856 between Russia and an ultimately victorious alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, the United Kingdom and Piedmont-Sardinia. Geopolitical causes of the war included the de ...

. In 1858 he was returned to Parliament as one of two representatives for Norfolk East, a seat he held until 1865.

Personal life

Coke made a single appearance in

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for the

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in 1851. He died unmarried in January 1907, aged 78.

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* 1828 births 1907 deaths Younger sons of earls Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1857–1859 UK MPs 1859–1865 Scots Guards officers British Army personnel of the Crimean War English cricketers Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers {{England-Liberal-UK-MP-stub