John Coke (died 1650)

Sir John Coke (1607–1650) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons of England from 1640 to 1650.

Coke was the son of Sir John Coke of Melbourne Hall and his wife Mary Powell, daughter of John Powell of Presteigne, Herefordshire.

[2] Coke was a member of the committee of sequestrators appointed for Derbyshire on 31 March 1645 and of another for raising money for the maintenance of Fairfax's army during 1644.

He was then one of the nine commissioners appointed to take charge of King Charles I after he had been captured and handed over by the Scots.

The commissioners remained with the king at Holdenby House Northamptonshire and went with him to Hampton Court Palace where he escaped.