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

Famous quotes containing the words thomas and/or coke:

    “And from the first declension of the flesh
    I learnt man’s tongue, to twist the shapes of thoughts
    Into the stony idiom of the brain....”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    “One of the oddest episodes I remember was an occasion in which [Clarence] Thomas was drinking a Coke in his office, he got up from the table, at which we were working, went over to his desk to get the Coke, looked at the can and asked, “Who has put pubic hair on my coke?””
    —Anita Hill (b. 1956)