| Description | Roger Sacheverell Coke was the son of Langton Sacheverell Coke, who died at the Battle of Ypres in 1914, and his wife Dorothy Maye Huntingford. On his father's death, at the age of two, he inherited Brookhill. He was educated at Eton College, where he took up the piano. He continued studying composition and piano after leaving school; for his 21st birthday his mother had outbuildings at Brookhill converted to a a music studio and performance space for him. In 1940 he formed the Brookhill Symphony Orchestra.
Coke was a prolific composer, and although he wasn't taken up by a publisher, he paid for the publication of some works and performed around the country. He died in 1972. |