Robert Coke 1587-1653
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Sir Robert COKE 1587-1653
Biographical Note
Of Caludon Castle, Warwickshire, and Holkham, Norfolk; MP.
Books
Left instructions in his will for the establishment of a library at Epsom, but this did not materialise. Many of his books passed to his nephew George Berkeley, 1st Earl Berkeley (1628-98), who gave them to Sion College.
Sources
- History of Parliament.
- Pearce, E. Sion College and Library, 1913, 258-60.