1. Sir John Coke MP JP PC was an English civil servant and naval administrator, described by one commentator as "the Samuel Pepys of his day".
11 Facts About John Coke
1. 2.
John Coke was MP for various constituencies in the House of Commons between 1621 and 1629, and served as Secretary of State under Charles I, playing a key part in government during the eleven years of Personal Rule from 1629 to 1640.
3.
The younger son of a Derbyshire lawyer, Coke owed his career to the patronage of Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke and George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, both of whom valued his efficiency and capacity for hard work.
4.
John Coke left Cambridge in 1591 to work for Greville full time, then spent the years from 1593 to 1597 travelling in Europe, almost certainly on behalf of Essex who was seeking to establish a network of agents there.
5.
In 1621 John Coke was elected Member of Parliament for Warwick.
6.
John Coke was appointed a Master of Requests in 1622 and was knighted in 1624.
7.
John Coke was elected MP for Cambridge University in 1626 and 1628.
Related searches
Samuel Pepys 8.
John Coke married Marie Powell, and they set up home at Hall Court, Kynaston, Much Marcle.
9.
Coke's elder son, Sir John Coke was a Parliamentarian in the English Civil War, while his younger son Thomas Coke was a Royalist.
10.
The John Coke family continued to own Melbourne Hall until George Lewis John Coke, an ambiguous figure who died childless in 1777.
11.
John Coke's sister married the family's lawyer and the Coke name was lost.