He inherited the family estate of Brookhill Hall, Pinxton[1] at the age of two, when his father, Lieutenant Langton Sacheverell Coke, died at the Battle of Ypres in October 1914.
[2][3][4] Coke began composing when he was at Eton College, where he was taught by Henry Ley, and was influenced to take up the piano by hearing Benno Moiseiwitsch.
In the chamber music field there are sonatas for cello[9] and for violin, as well as extended works for piano solo, notably the 24 Preludes[10] and 15 Variations and Finale, and around 100 songs.
[5] Some works were taken up by leading musicians, including pianists Charles Lynch and Moura Lympany, and he counted Moiseiwitsch and Sergei Rachmaninoff amongst his friends.
A revival of interest in his work began in 2012 with a performance of his first violin sonata at the English Music Festival in Dorchester Abbey on 2 June 2012.