Norfolk County Councillor for Gayton & Nar Valley division
In office 2 May 2013 – 4 May 2017
Preceded by
Janet Murphy
Succeeded by
Graham Middleton
Personal details
Born
Richard Townshend Coke
(1954-02-01) 1 February 1954 (age 70) Weasenham, Norfolk
Nationality
British
Political party
UK Independence Party
Spouse
Carrie-Lee Early
Alma mater
Radley College
Richard Townshend Coke (born 1 February 1954), known as Toby Coke and as Richard Toby Coke, is an English landowner and forester who served as leader of the UK Independence Party group on Norfolk County Council from 2013 until 2017.
Born at Weasenham, near Great Massingham in Norfolk, Coke is the elder son of Major Richard Lovel Coke (1918–2001) and Molly (née Fletcher), a daughter of Walter Townshend Fletcher.[1] His father was a grandson of Thomas Coke, 2nd Earl of Leicester (1822–1909).[2] He was educated at Radley College[1] and Sandhurst and commissioned into the Scots Guards.[3] After four years in the army, he followed a financial services career in the City of London, before going to work in Canada and the United States. He returned to Norfolk to run the family estate, which consists largely of woodland, and now operates a training course at the Weasenham estate called "Extreeme Adventure."[2][4]
A climate change denier, Coke has said he is
"fundamentally opposed to the climate change scam which is causing fuel poverty and the monstrous wind turbines that threaten so much of our most picturesque countryside."[4]
At the Norfolk County Council election on 2 May 2013, Coke was elected to represent the Gayton and Nar Valley electoral division and a few days later was chosen as leader of the county council's UKIP group of fifteen councillors,[5] making him "leader of the opposition".[6] He stood down from his seat at the 2017 Norfolk County Council election.
Coke unsuccessfully contested Mid Norfolk for UKIP in 2010[7] and North West Norfolk for UKIP in 2015. He commented that before 2010 he had no involvement in politics apart from "dabbling in parish politics".[6]
^ abQuarterly Journal of Forestry, vols. 98-99 (2004), p. 299
^The London Gazette, issue no. 46469 (Supplement) dated 21 January 1975, p. 862
^ abRichard Coke profile at edp24.co.uk, accessed 4 October 2013
^Dan Grimmer, Norfolk County Council’s UKIP group picks its leader from Eastern Daily Press dated 8 May 2013, online at edp24.co.uk, accessed 4 October 2013
^ abDeborah McGurran, UKIP selects leader of the opposition in Norfolk dated 8 May 2010 at bbc.co.uk, accessed 4 October 2013
^Ruth Northey, ed., Whitaker's Almanack 2012 (2011), p. 167
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