| Entry Type | Family |
| Surname | Coke |
| Place | Brookhill Hall, Pinxton |
| Epithet | family |
| Biography | The Coke family were living in Derbyshire by the thirteenth century and acquired the Trusley estate by marriage in the early fifteenth century. The family increased its properties in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire by purchase and marriage including the acquisition of Pinxton Manor by Sir Francis Coke in the late sixteenth century.
The elder male line became extinct with the death of William Coke in 1718 when the estate passed to his two daughters. Through Catherine, wife of Edward Wilmot, half of the estate passed in 1811 to her granddaughter Susanna. The second co-heiress Frances married her relative D'Ewes Coke of Suckley in Worcestershire and her half of the estate passed to her grandson, Revd D'Ewes Coke of Brookhill, rector of Pinxton and South Normanton. John Coke, 3rd son of Revd D'Ewes Coke, reunited the Trusleys estate through marriage to Susanna Wilmot. On John's death in 1841 the Debdale and Trusley estate were left to Edward Thomas Coke, 3rd son of John's brother, D'Ewes Coke.
D'Ewes Coke (1774-1856) inherited the Pinxton estate from his father Revd D'Ewes Coke (1747-1811). His sons Francis Lillyman Coke (1804-1873) and William Sacheverell Coke (1805-1896) inherited successively and the estate then passed in the male line to Colonel William Langton Coke (1843-1913), Lieutenant Langton Sacheverell Coke (1878-1914) and Roger Sacheverell Coke (1912-1972), a composer and concert pianist. His death brought the male line to an end. Brookhill was extended in the eighteenth century. It became the main residence of the family descended from D'Ewes Coke from the nineteenth century. |
| Authorised Form of Name | Coke; family; Brookhill Hall, Pinxton |
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