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Biography of Edward Coke, SirName: Edward Coke, SirBirth Date: 1552 Death Date: 1634 Place of Birth: Mileham, Norfolk, England Nationality: English Gender: Male Occupations: member of parliament, jurist Edward Coke, Sir The English jurist and parliamentarian Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634) fought to prevent royal interference with the independent common-law courts.Edward Coke was born at Mileham, Norfolk, and was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1567 to 1571. Thereafter he rapidly rose in the legal profession from a student at Lincoln's Inn to barrister, reader at Lyon's Inn, and senior member of the Inner Temple. In 1592 Queen Elizabeth I appointed Coke solicitor general, and in the following year he became attorney general. As attorney general, Coke was a forceful prosecutor on behalf of the Crown, and among his most famous prosecutions were those of the Earl of Essex, Sir Walter Raleigh, and the "Gunpowder" plotters. Coke's ascendancy was at the expense of Sir Francis Bacon, whom Essex had supported for the attorney generalship, and the two were rivals throughout their careers.In 1582 Coke married Bridget Paston, who brought him a fortune. She died in 1598, …showed first 150 words…
…showed last 150 words…tenures, statutes, the criminal law, and the jurisdiction of courts. Coke was not above twisting earlier law to the advantage of the 17th-century causes he favored. His holding in Dr. Bonham's case (1610) has attracted the interest of students of American constitutional law, some of whom view it as the first enunciation of the principle of judicial review. Further Reading The sole modern biography of Coke is Catherine Drinker Bowen, The Lion and the Throne: The Life and Times of Sir Edward Coke, 1552-1634 (1957). This work makes very pleasant reading, while maintaining a high standard of scholarship, and contains a lengthy list of older works and journal articles on Coke.Bowen, Catherine Drinker, The lion and the throne: the life and times of Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634), Boston: Little, Brown, 1990.Lyon, Hastings, Edward Coke: oracle of the law: containing the story of his long rivalry with Francis Bacon ..., Littleton, Colo.: F.B. Rothman, 1992. |