Anthony Coke, 6th Earl of Leicester

Anthony Louis Lovel Coke, 6th Earl of Leicester (11 September 1909 – 19 June 1994), was a British peer.

[1] His father was the second son of Thomas Coke, 3rd Earl of Leicester and was killed in action in 1915 during the First World War.

He and his wife, Vera, were based in the Mondoro Reserve near Hartley, where he was responsible for educating and assisting African farmers.

In 1976 he succeeded his first cousin Thomas as 6th Earl of Leicester, inheriting a substantial estate based on Holkham Hall in Norfolk, but remained living in South Africa, as his eldest son had already taken over the management of the estate.

They had two sons and one daughter together: They were divorced in 1947 in which year Leicester married Vera Haigh in Southern Rhodesia.