Richard Toby Coke

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"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]

Private life

On 19 November 1996 in the United States, Coke married Carrie-Lee Early, an attorney, the daughter of Neil Early, of New York. [1]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Charles Mosley, ed., Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage (107th edition, 2003), vol. 1, page 641; vol. 2, p. 2289
  2. 1 2 Quarterly Journal of Forestry, vols. 98-99 (2004), p. 299
  3. ↑ The London Gazette , issue no. 46469 (Supplement) dated 21 January 1975, p. 862
  4. 1 2 Richard Coke profile at edp24.co.uk, accessed 4 October 2013
  5. ↑ 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
  6. 1 2 Deborah McGurran, UKIP selects leader of the opposition in Norfolk dated 8 May 2010 at bbc.co.uk, accessed 4 October 2013
  7. ↑ Ruth Northey, ed., Whitaker's Almanack 2012 (2011), p. 167

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Richard Toby Coke
Norfolk County Councillor
for Gayton & Nar Valley division
In office
2 May 2013 –4 May 2017