"FATHER OF THE LORDS."
_ , ; EARL OF LEICESTER DEAD. "(DTTELEaKAPn—PEESSiSSOCIATION—COPTErOHT.K' ' . ' v:: London, January 25, , Tiio Earl of; Leicester is dead,; aetat 86. v '.'.FATHER-IN-LAW OF THE PEERAGE." • ■ On' the. death of 'Lord Templembre; the Earl :of; earned the title of ;'Tather: of .the: •Houso of:. Lords," in ■which ho had eat sines < 18i2.. He was A descendant of Sir Ed«ard Coke (•'Coke,: on ..Littleton"), the famous. lawyer of Elizabethan times, ibut.-the present'.Earldom'was ' not created' tiU ,1837",? the year, of . Qiteen. yior'. Sofia's Accession,: and the late "Peer.; was th'e ' second Enrl.v. The.first EarL lived to bo eightyeight years'of age, so. the 'second' one: (who waa born in December, 4322) had. a. good "example 'set him; '; : Tho deceased' Earl ,was Lord-Lieuteri- V dht'of Norfolk for sixty Tears: - In addition to being: .'father ,-of -the House of Lords,"' ha ' might, almost be i called ''Father-in-law of the Peerage;"' his'; sons-in-law being* the. seVonth .Lord'. I'owersconrt,'. the seventh Earl '• of l Dan-; ,morey;the': sixth, Earl Of; Dartmouth,-the 'fourth 1 ;Jparl oof: 'Lpitrim,the .!■ second Lord-: -Belper,; : ,'arid s the; third :Earl ; 'of Lichfield.. The Earl ■ 01, ■ Leicester-.jvas 'twice; married.'' His;:eldest..soi> : arid -heir, .Viscount fCoke,- was born' in. 18iS.'.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 416, 27 January 1909, Page 7
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193"FATHER OF THE LORDS." Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 416, 27 January 1909, Page 7
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