Thomas Coke, 2nd Earl of Leicester

Thomas William Coke, 2nd Earl of Leicester KG DL (26 December 1822 – 24 January 1909), known as Viscount Coke from 1837 to 1842, was a British peer.

Leicester was the son of Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester, by his second wife Lady Anne Amelia Keppel.

He succeeded to the earldom and Holkham Hall on his father's death in 1842.

Lord Leicester served as Lord-Lieutenant of Norfolk from 1846 to 1906 and was a member of the Council of the Duchy of Cornwall and Keeper of the Privy Seal.

They had nine children: Lord Leicester married secondly, Hon.

Holkham Hall remains the family seat of the Earls of Leicester.
Thomas Coke, second Earl of Leicester, by Leslie Ward , 1883