The Ladies Coke
(1844-1931 and 1845-1876)
2 July 1861

Volume 4, page 153, sitting number 4684.

Listed in the Silvy daybooks as the 'daughters of the Countess of Leicester,' these are two of the daughters of Thomas William Coke (1822-1909), 2nd Earl of Leicester, and his first wife, Juliana Whitbread. This marriage produced seven daughters, namely, Lady Julia Coke (1844-1931), Lady Anne Coke (1845-1876), Lady Gertrude Coke (1847-1943), Lady Mary Coke (1849-1929), Lady Winifred Coke (1851-1940), Lady Margaret Coke (1852-1922) and Lady Mildred Coke (1854-1941). Given the apparent age of the sitters in this portrait, I would presume that they are the two eldest of the seven girls.

On 26 April 1864 Lady Julia Coke married Mervyn Wingfield, 7th Viscount Powerscourt. Their marriaged produced five children. Viscountess Powerscourt died on 7 August 1931.

On 16 January 1874 Lady Anne Coke married Edmund Manningham Manningham-Buller, son of Sir Edmund Manningham Manningham-Buller, 1st Bt. Their marriage produced two children. She died on 23 January 1876, a week after giving birth to her second child.