Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke (pronounced Cook) may refer to:

  • Thomas Coke (MP) for Winchester
  • Thomas Coke (died 1523), MP for Salisbury
  • Thomas Coke (privy counsellor) (1674–1727), of Melbourne Hall, Derbyshire, created Privy Counsellor in 1708
  • Thomas Coke (bishop) (1747–1814), early Methodist
  • Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester (fifth creation) (1697–1759), English land-owner, Member of Parliament and patron of the arts
  • Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester (seventh creation) (1754–1842), agricultural innovator, created 1st Earl of Leicester of Holkham
  • Thomas Coke (MP for Leicester) (died 1656), English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1645
  • Thomas Coke, Viscount Coke (born 1965)
  • Thomas Coke, 2nd Earl of Leicester (1822–1909), British peer
  • Thomas Coke, 3rd Earl of Leicester (1848–1941), British peer and soldier
  • Thomas Coke, 4th Earl of Leicester (1880–1949), British peer
  • Thomas Coke, 5th Earl of Leicester (1908–1976), British peer

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    When logics die,
    The secret of the soil grows through the eye,
    And blood jumps in the sun;
    Above the waste allotments the dawn halts.
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    Name me, if you can, a better feeling than the one you get when you’ve half a bottle of Chivas in the bag with a gram of coke up your nose and a teenage lovely pulling off her tube top in the next seat over while you’re doing a hundred miles an hour in a suburban side street.
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