D'Ewes Coke
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| caption = D'Ewes Coke and his wife, Hannah, behind his cousin Daniel Coke in a painting by Joseph Wright (use mouse pointer to explore the image)
| birth_place = Mansfield Woodhouse, England
| death_date = 12 April 1811
| death_place = Bath, England
| education = Repton School and St John's College, Cambridge
| occupation = Clergyman and barrister
| spouse = Hannah Heywood
| parents = George Coke and Elizabeth, dau. of Rev. Seth Ellis
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D'Ewes Coke (1747 – 12 April 1811) was rector of Pinxton and South Normanton in Derbyshire, a colliery owner and philanthropist.
He married Hannah, heiress of George Heywood of Brimington.
Background
Coke was born at Mansfield Woodhouse in 1747, the only son of George Coke (1725–1759) of Kirkby Hall, Nottinghamshire, and of his wife Elizabeth, daughter of the Reverend Seth Ellis. George Coke was himself the son of another D'Ewes Coke (died 1751), of Suckley, and of his first wife, Frances Coke, daughter and co-heiress of William Coke of Trusley, and was the only one of their three children to survive childhood. Coke's father died in 1759, when his son was only about twelve.
The name D'Ewes came from Coke's great-grandmother Elizabeth d'Ewes, who was the mother of the first D'Ewes Coke. A daughter of Sir Willoughby d'Ewes, 2nd Baronet, of Stowlangtoft Hall, Suffolk, she was the wife of Coke's great-grandfather Heigham Coke of Suckley. Her grandfather was Sir Simonds d'Ewes, 1st Baronet.[http://www.stirnet.com/HTML/genie/british/cc4aq/coke02.htm Pedigree of Coke] at stirnet.com (subscription required), accessed 14 April 2008.Orchard, James (ed.), The Autobiography and Correspondence of Sir Simonds D'Ewes, Bart., [https://books.google.com/books?id=i2rhFi1YX3kC&dq=d'Ewes&pg=RA1-PR7 page 7 of Preface] online at books.google.co.uk, accessed 14 April 2008
Coke's own family can be traced back to the 15th century and includes such notable figures as George Coke, a Bishop of Hereford just before the English Civil War, and Sir John Coke, Secretary of State to King Charles I.
Coke's family owned collieries in Pinxton, where Coke later paid for a school and a schoolmaster's residence to be erected.White's Directory of Derbyshire, 1857
Coke was a cousin of Daniel Coke (1745–1825), a barrister and member of parliament.
Life and family
Coke was educated at Repton School and St John's College, Cambridge, where he was admitted a pensionerIn the University of Cambridge, a pensioner is an undergraduate who is not a scholar or a sizar and who pays for his or her tuition and commons. on 13 October 1764, his father being named as George Coke, Colonel of the 3rd Dragoons, of Kirkby Hall, Nottinghamshire.{{acad|id=CK764D|name=Coke, D'Ewes}}
Entering the ministry of the Church of England in 1770, Coke was ordained a deacon on 23 September of that year and priest on 15 December 1771, both in the Diocese of Coventry and Lichfield, and held the rectories of Pinxton and South Normanton, Derbyshire, from 1771 to 1811.{{CCEd |type=person |id=10088 |name=Coke, D'Ewes |yob=1770 |yod=1811 |accessed=2 February 2014 }}
He married Hannah, [died 1818] daughter of George Heywood of Brimington Hall, Nottinghamshire, where Coke spent his later years. They had three sons, the eldest being another D'Ewes Coke (1774–1856), who was Coke's heir and became a barrister. The second son also went into the law and became Sir William Coke (1776–1818), a judge in Ceylon. Coke's third son was John Coke DL (died 1841), who served as High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire in 1830.[https://books.google.com/books?id=YdIKAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22rev+d+ewes+coke%22&pg=PA241 Burkes Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry], Bernard Burke, 1847, retrieved 28 March 2008 John Coke was also instrumental in founding the Pinxton China factory, on land rented from his father.[http://www.pinxtonporcelain.co.uk/pinxhist.htm A Brief Chronology of the Pinxton China Factory]{{Dead link|date=July 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} by C. Shepherd, pub 1996 All three sons played a role in the establishment of the Mansfield and Pinxton Railway, which opened in 1819.[http://www.old-mansfield.org.uk/tales/pinxton.htm The Mansfield & Pinxton Railway: Promoting the railway scheme, 1813–17] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111003181154/http://www.old-mansfield.org.uk/tales/pinxton.htm |date=3 October 2011 }} at old-mansfield.org.uk, accessed 14 April 2008
The family portrait on this page by Joseph Wright of Derby was painted about 1782, just after Coke and his wife had inherited Brookhill Hall, near Pinxton.[http://www.derby.gov.uk/LeisureCulture/MuseumsGalleries/The_Rev_DEwes_Coke_his_wife_and_a_relative.htm The Rev D'Ewes Coke, his wife and a relative] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071222023952/http://www.derby.gov.uk/LeisureCulture/MuseumsGalleries/The_Rev_DEwes_Coke_his_wife_and_a_relative.htm |date=22 December 2007 }} at derby.gov.uk, accessed 14 April 2008 It shows them with Coke's cousin Daniel Coke at a table in the open air, under a large tree. The focus of the composition, and apparently the object of discussion, is a sheet of paper held by Daniel Coke, which may relate to the unseen landscape. Wright places D'Ewes Coke at the apex of a triangle, with his gaze towards his wife, while the other two look away from the small group. The meaning of the painting has been lost.[http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/print/exhibitions/citizensandkings/the-landscape-and-the-figure,322,AR.html The landscape and the figure] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110518205944/http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/print/exhibitions/citizensandkings/the-landscape-and-the-figure,322,AR.html |date=18 May 2011 }} online at royalacademy.org.uk, accessed 14 April 2008 Coke became a member of Derby Philosophical Society which was formed when Erasmus Darwin moved to Derby.
Coke died at Bath on 12 April 1811 and was buried at Pinxton.
Legacy
In his Will, Coke established an educational charity at Pinxton, leaving five pounds a year from the profits of his collieries to buy books for poor children. In 1846, the books were generally given to children attending an unendowed school.[https://books.google.com/books?id=GvoGAAAAQAAJ&dq=%22d%27ewes+coke%22&pg=PA660 History, gazetteer and directory of Derbyshire] p.660, accessed 30 March 2008
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