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Richard Townshend Coke (born 1 February 1954), known as Toby Coke and as Richard Toby Coke, is a politician of the UK Independence Party and a landowner and forester in Norfolk, in the east of England. He is currently the UKIP leader in Norfolk County Council. His surname is pronounced "Cook". Born in 1954 at Weasenham, near Great Massingham in Norfolk, Coke is the elder son of Major Richard Lovel Coke (1918–2001), by his marriage to Molly, a daughter of Walter Townshend Fletcher.〔Charles Mosley, ed., ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage'' (107th edition, 2003), vol. 1, page 641; vol. 2, p. 2289〕 His father was a grandson of Thomas Coke, 2nd Earl of Leicester (1822–1909).〔 He was educated at Radley College〔 and Sandhurst and commissioned into the Scots Guards.〔''The London Gazette'', issue no. 46469 (Supplement) dated 21 January 1975, (p. 862 )〕 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."〔''Quarterly Journal of Forestry'', vols. 98-99 (2004), p. 299〕〔(Richard Coke profile ) at edp24.co.uk, accessed 4 October 2013〕 A climate change sceptic, Coke has said he is 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,〔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〕 making him leader of the opposition".〔Deborah McGurran, (UKIP selects leader of the opposition in Norfolk ) dated 8 May 2010 at bbc.co.uk, accessed 4 October 2013〕 Coke unsuccessfully contested Mid Norfolk for UKIP in 2010〔Ruth Northey, ed., ''Whitaker's Almanack 2012'' (2011), p. 167〕 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".〔 ==Private life== On 19 November 1996, Coke married in the United States Carrie-Lee Early, an attorney, the daughter of Neil Early, of New York.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Richard Toby Coke」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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