词条 | Alice Coke, Countess of Leicester |
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She was the daughter of Sir Luke White, who succeeded as 2nd Baron Annaly in 1873. She married Viscount Coke on 26 August 1879. He succeeded his father as 3rd Earl of Leicester in 1909. The couple had five children, including Thomas Coke, 4th Earl of Leicester.[2][3] She was a prominent figure in Norfolk, becoming a Justice of the Peace in 1922.[3] She was president of the Norfolk Branch of the British Red Cross Society during the War, and was in consequence appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 1920 civilian war honours.[3] She died at Holkham Hall on 24 April 1936.[3] References1. ^{{cite book|last1=Lodge|first1=Edmund|title=The Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire as at Present Existing|date=1877|publisher=Hurst and Blackett, Publishers|page=20|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gLEKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA20|accessdate=6 July 2017|language=en}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2012}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Leicester, Alice}}{{UK-earl-stub}}2. ^{{cite book |title= Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood|publisher=Burke's Peerage & Gentry |editor= Mosley, Charles |edition=107 |year= 2003 |page= 2290 |ref=Burke |isbn=0-9711966-2-1}} 3. ^1 2 3 {{cite news|author=Staff|title=The Countess of Leicester|newspaper=The Times|location=London, England, UK|date=25 April 1936|page=14}} 8 : 1855 births|1936 deaths|People from Holkham|British countesses|Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire|Daughters of barons|British women in World War I|English justices of the peace |
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