Thomas Edward Coke, 8th Earl of Leicester (born 6 July 1965), is the son of Edward Coke, 7th Earl of Leicester, and Valeria Phyllis Potter.

[1] Lord Leicester was educated at Beeston Hall School and Eton College.

[4] In 2021, he won a by-election to the House of Lords as a member of the Conservative Party, taking the oath on 20 July 2021.

[5][6] Lord Leicester was married on 21 December 1996 to Polly Maria Whately (born 1967),[1] youngest daughter of the financier David Whately and his wife Belinda Bellville, of the designers Bellville Sassoon.

Lady Leicester, through her mother, is a first cousin of the interior designer Cath Kidston.