© Kaupo Kikkas
Compiled 18 September 2026, and revised as the archive grows.
The biography carries no footnote marks. This list does the same job from outside it: it goes through the text section by section and gives, in one line each, the document behind every statement of fact.
Every reference is a number in the Coke research archive, which runs from Coke0001 to Coke0834. The archive's Source Register gives each number a date, a description, a repository and the file it is held in, so a number here is enough to find the document itself.
Three cautions, which are the reason this list is trustworthy rather than tidy:
| Number | What it is | |---|---| | Coke0003 | Coke's own two albums of press cuttings, Chesterfield Library. The source of most of the reviews. | | Coke0016 | Griselda Brook, the shorter memoir, 2016 | | Coke0042, Coke0329 | Griselda Brook, "Memories of Brookhill", the long memoir | | Coke0734 | Griselda Brook, full transcript of the filmed interview, 7 September 2016 | | Coke0072 | Dorothy Maye Coke's pocket diary for 1944 | | Coke0073 | Dorothy Maye Coke's household account book, 1941 to 1944 | | Coke0020 | The settlement of the Brookhill estate, 2 November 1908 | | Coke0062, Coke0063 | Coke's own printed lists of works, 1950 and January 1958 | | Coke0091 | Death certificate, grant of probate and will | | Coke0094 | Callaghan's research compilation, including the Goossens and Ballachey correspondence | | Coke0749 | Callaghan, 'Performing the Music of Roger Sacheverell Coke' (2019) | | Coke0066 | The illustrated auction catalogue of the contents sale, 27 November 1974 | | Coke0086 | Clive Jones, the obituary essay, May 1973 | | Coke0111 | Robert Innes-Smith, "The tragedy of Roger Sacheverell Coke" | | Coke0089 | Hugo Meynell, the 1957 appreciation, the only substantial one published in Coke's lifetime | | Coke0068 | Loudon Merry, "The Music of R. Sacheverell Coke", Christmas 1942 |
Three groups of material were still uncatalogued when this list was first compiled. They were given numbers on 18 September 2026 and are listed at the end.
1.1 The portrait of Coke as a small boy holding his father's sword, by George Frederick Bird. Coke0066, the auction catalogue, lot 109. Reproduced in Coke0090, Roy Christian on the house.
1.2 Coke saying he began composing before he knew a note of music, and 1919 as the year of the painting. Coke0090.
1.3 The label on the back, "Roger, Son of the Late Lieut L. Satcheverell Coke". Coke0066. Coke0049 is the only other source that records the portrait being in the sale.
1.4 The father: Lieutenant Langton Sacheverell Coke, 1st Battalion Irish Guards, killed 31 October 1914 aged 36, commemorated on the Menin Gate, Panel 11. Coke0750, the CWGC casualty record. Also Coke0602, the Menin Gate register, and Coke0603.
1.5 The death reported at home, and the two-year-old succeeding to the estate. Coke0605 and Coke0082, the Pinxton column; Coke0463, with a photograph.
1.6 The father's career, including the Whitehall post under Sir Charles Hobhouse. Coke0604, the memorial volume life; Coke0593, the 1911 census schedule in his own hand.
1.7 The 1969 or 1970 burglary and the "Consolation note" quotation. Coke0103, the cutting; the same words are in Coke0049.
1.8 The sword as lot 84 and the portrait as lot 109, seventy-five lots apart. Coke0066; Coke0078 advertises the dress sword.
1.9 Born in London 20 October 1912, died at Pinxton 23 October 1972. Coke0091, the death certificate. The birth date is also on the headstone, Coke0828 and in Coke0607, de Ruvigny's Roll of Honour.
1.10 Eighty-six songs in thirteen years, told to a local paper in 1951. Coke0178, Free Press, 19 January 1951.
1.11 Seven BBC items in a working lifetime, by his own count. Coke0063, his printed list of January 1958.
2.1 The family at Brookhill since the sixteenth century, and the Sacheverell name. Coke0451 and Coke0479, the coming-of-age reports with the pedigree; Coke0461 on the 1638 marriage; Coke0478 on the name in the wider family.
2.2 The name pronounced Cook. Coke0220, the Derbyshire Advertiser paragraph on the pronunciation; also Coke0090 and Coke0008.
2.3 Griselda Brook on the house, "a large, grim and architecturally confused collection of buildings". Coke0042 and Coke0329.
2.4 The leaking roof and the buckets. Coke0042 and Coke0329, wording to check.
2.5 Roy Christian's visit: the hall, the library, the chimneypiece from Kirkby Old Hall, the magenta blue staircase, "many locked doors and shuttered windows". Coke0090.
2.6 The Wright of Derby conversation piece, sold to Derby Art Gallery in 1965. Coke0081.
2.7 The settlement of 2 November 1908: thirty-three engrossed sides, the coloured plans, the schedule of heirlooms, the Coke Bowl, the tiara, and the grounds defined as "about Thirty one acres". Coke0020.
2.8 Clause 12, the annuity, and the three hundred a year forfeit for "default in occupying Brookhill Hall", with the six months rule. Coke0020.
2.9 Eight and a third acres at the 1974 sale. Coke0064, the Strutt and Parker advertisement.
2.10 The Railway Executive's THIRD APPLICATION of September 1950 for one shilling, addressed under "Col. Coke's Trust", with the initials wrong. Coke0076.
2.11 The household ledger: rates, tithe, the Commercial Union premium, coal from Pinxton Collieries, the telephone bill, and the wages column naming Nelly, Daisie, Harold, Letty, Evelyn, Annie and Freeman. Coke0073.
2.12 Julie Baud, the French governess, in the house from his sister's childhood until her death in the 1960s. Coke0042 and Coke0329; Coke0044 records a song dedicated to her.
2.13 His mother never remarried. Coke0329.
2.14 That she idolised her son. Coke0016.
2.15 Elizabeth's lessons from two women in the village and her bedroom in the servants' attic. Coke0042 and Coke0329; the two women also at Coke0032. That they were retired teachers: Coke0826, the notes of the meeting with Griselda Brook, 18 September 2026.
2.16 "She went in the back of the car with the luggage." Coke0042 and Coke0329.
2.17 Peter Hardy on the village boys and his father stopping it. Coke0032.
2.18 "Roger was always a loving, unspoilt person." Coke0016. "not of this world, a complete innocent": Coke0042 and Coke0329.
3.1 Entered Eton in May 1926. Coke0364, the Alphabetical List of the School; Coke0377, the entrance register.
3.2 Henry George Ley. Coke0366, his organ recital; Coke0574, which names him as Coke's Eton teacher.
3.3 The London Wind Quintet, with Goossens and Aubrey Brain. Coke0368.
3.4 Old Etonian composers returning to play their own work. Coke0363.
3.5 The playing "was rather immature". Coke0362, with Coke0369.
3.6 "Coke's virtuosity just failed to come off. It was careless rather than care-free", November 1929. Coke0373; Coke0375 is the second informal concert.
3.7 The three preludes of his own, June 1929, and the boy about to compete against him. Coke0371.
3.8 The Harmsworth Composition Prize, won at fifteen. Coke0377, which records three Harmsworth music prizes; Coke0371 names the prize.
3.9 The debating society speech of February 1930 and the secretary's verdict. Coke0378.
4.1 Hearing Moiseiwitsch, and "the hard calling of a musician". Coke0086 and Coke0089; the same account at Coke0153 and Coke0723.
4.2 Mabel Lander: Berlin, Leschetizky, the Dublin career, the rheumatism, and Moiseiwitsch bringing her to London. Coke0102 and Coke0334, the Musical Times obituary; Coke0497, the earliest printed statement that she studied with Leschetizky; Coke0480 to Coke0507, the Dublin notices.
4.3 The Princesses and Malcolm Sargent among her pupils. Coke0518 and Coke0585; Coke0493.
4.4 "the Russian and Viennese traditions". Coke0085, the memorial scholarship advertisement; the school itself at Coke0084.
4.5 Alan Bush, and "he taught me all I know and taught me to write MY OWN MUSIC". Coke0089; also quoted in Coke0094.
4.6 J. Frederick Staton as theory teacher. Coke0543.
4.7 His niece's belief that he also studied in Germany. Coke0734.
4.8 The First Concerto at the Bath Pump Room, October 1932, twice in one day. Coke0411, the advertisement; Coke0574, the fuller report.
4.9 "music-lovers came from Honiton, Eton, Derbyshire, and Ipswich", and Sir Charles Hobhouse in the audience. Coke0414, with Coke0294.
4.10 The Tatler on the nineteen or twenty year old and its hope of hearing the concerto in London. Coke0557; the earlier paragraph at Coke0243.
4.11 The Second Concerto at Bath, November 1933. Coke0417 and Coke0576, the announcements; Coke0565, the review.
4.12 "a remarkable and praiseworthy advance in structure and thematic development." Coke0244.
4.13 "likeable and easily understood", and the first charge of Rachmaninoff's influence. Coke0252.
4.14 The Berlin Embassy concert of April 1933. Coke0010, with Coke0420 and Coke0479.
4.15 The twenty-first birthday concert of 20 October 1933, the music room out of the stables, the Steinway subscription and the gramophone from the tenants. Coke0010, Coke0420 and Coke0479; the programme itself at Coke0185.
4.16 The dedications of the six works later destroyed. Coke0010, Coke0420 and Coke0479; the performers named at Coke0527.
4.17 The Nottingham Journal review, "For one splendid hour", the Arabesque, and "certainly destined to make a name for himself". Coke0229 and Coke0526; also Coke0240.
4.18 The Torquay columnist, the flaxen hair, and the stack of press cuttings. Coke0152.
4.19 The First Symphony at Chesterfield, 27 January 1935, and the Steinway brought to the hall, "the first time, it is believed". Coke0467; the announcements at Coke0446 and Coke0476.
4.20 "a dual triumph for composer and conductor". Coke0271, with Coke0293.
4.21 Staton interviewed the day before: "undoubted ability, perseverance, wealth", and the unorthodox squire. Coke0543, with Coke0293.
4.22 Eastbourne, October 1934: the programme note, "we were glad of the information", and the verdict on his metier. Coke0246; the concert at Coke0212 and Coke0492.
4.23 "lack of continuity, that common handicap of the beginner". Coke0245.
4.24 The two albums of press cuttings, annotated. Coke0003.
4.25 Alan Bush to Coke's mother, 31 August 1935: the cheque, "Roger will enjoy the trip", and the undertaking not to broach London. Coke0054.
4.26 Rachmaninoff's villa at Lucerne in August 1935, and the footnote recording what he played there. Coke0626 and Coke0619, the First Piano Sonata; Coke0578, which dates the visit to 1935.
4.27 The visit recalled thirty-six years later to a Radio Derby producer. Coke0018.
5.1 The destruction announced, October 1938. Coke0159 and Coke0445; also Coke0174 and Coke0175.
5.2 The itemised loss: two piano concertos, a symphony, piano pieces, a sonata and an elegy for voice and orchestra. Coke0512.
5.3 Seventeen works, and the critic who thought he had gone too far. Coke0453.
5.4 Coke dating his second period from 1935. Coke0512.
5.5 The Radio Times note on the Second Concerto, March 1934, and the cyclic scheme. Coke0043, the Genome billings; also Coke0256.
6.1 "the mental illness which was to blight the rest of his life". Coke0042 and Coke0329.
6.2 The illness later understood as schizophrenia. Coke0034, the note of the Wildsmith telephone call, and Coke0734.
6.3 His mother's pernicious anaemia. Coke0826, the notes of the meeting with Griselda Brook, 18 September 2026. It corrects the statement at Coke0749, p. 20 of the biographical chapter, that she suffered from depression.
6.4 Meals in the kitchen rather than the dining room. Coke0826, the notes of the meeting with Griselda Brook, 18 September 2026.
6.5 "Roger was always working in the Music Room, often through the night." Coke0016.
6.6 The silhouette against the window and the drumming fingers. Coke0042 and Coke0329, wording to check.
6.7 The two piano lessons and the Leschetizky method. Coke0826, the notes of the meeting with Griselda Brook, 18 September 2026. The method book in his own library is on the Chesterfield music-collection survey.
6.8 November Afternoon, opus 31, the Allsebrook setting, 1939. Coke0789, the manuscript.
6.9 Ralf Allsebrook killed in 1943. Coke0349, the CWGC certificate.
6.10 What Allsebrook meant to him. Coke0734.
6.11 "most of his life desperately lonely". Coke0734.
6.12 The Bax letters and Malcolm Sargent on the songs of 1939. Coke0086, Clive Jones's obituary essay of May 1973, which quotes both. The letters themselves are not in this archive.
6.13 Bax and Goossens having heard and favoured the Fifteen Variations, and the twelfth performance. Coke0522, the Nottingham Journal of 14 February 1942. The dedication of Dorian Gray to Bax: Coke0314, the first page of the autograph full score, headed in Coke's hand "for Sir Arnold Bax".
6.14 Loudon Merry in The Gong, Christmas 1942, on the Third Concerto, the Second Symphony and the Preludes, and on the Variations as Coke's own favourite. Coke0068, with the offprint at Coke0353.
6.15 The works of 1938 to 1943, opp. 29 to 44. Coke0062 and Coke0063, his printed lists.
6.16 The Second Cello Sonata dated "Sept. 28 to Oct. 23" 1938 on its first page and at the end. Coke0769.
6.17 The Third Piano Concerto full score headed "Opus 30 (1938) [Oct. 23 to Dec. 10]". Coke0827, the six photographic negatives, filed as "Coke PC 3 (negative)" and "Coke signature". The autograph itself is Coke0772.
6.18 The architecture of the Twenty-Four Preludes, and the interruption motif in the concerto and the cello sonatas. Coke0749, the analytical chapters.
6.19 The Brookhill Symphony Orchestra's first concert, September 1940, forty players, the Second Symphony and the Third Concerto. Coke0533; the programme at Coke0211 and Coke0217; the Bristol report at Coke0579.
6.20 The Musical Times noticing it from London. Coke0342 and Coke0343.
6.21 The R.A.F. Benevolent Fund series from 3 November 1940. Coke0237 and Coke0253; reviews at Coke0230 and Coke0231.
6.22 "They play splendidly." Coke0533.
6.23 Bruckner, Mahler and Rachmaninoff in the orchestra's programmes. Coke0015, with Coke0183, Rob Barnett's 1992 life.
6.24 The Southwell Minster concert of 22 February 1941, Richard Austin, C.E.M.A., and the premiere of the Cenci Prelude. Coke0529; announced at Coke0571; the orchestra confirmed as the Brookhill at Coke0570.
6.25 Rachmaninoff's The Rock unheard in England since 1898. Coke0529, with Coke0570.
6.26 The broadcast of the Third Concerto, 3 August 1939: Charles Lynch, the Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra, Austin, Goossens producing, Fairhurst leading. Coke0001 and Coke0043; the Radio Times note at Coke0256.
6.27 "If one looks for a spiritual forbear, one is reminded of Rachmaninoff's First." Coke0001, with Coke0535.
6.28 The Elegiac Ballade, opus 51, written for airmen who had been killed. Coke0521, the Derbyshire press of October 1943.
6.29 The fuller dedication in his own hand, "and the pilots of the Fleet Air Arm", and the pencil note "Not yet performed, Oct. 19 62". Coke0036; the piano arrangement at Coke0785.
6.30 "His Second Symphony, dedicated to Rachmaninoff, is to be produced by Eugene Goossens at Cincinnati shortly." Coke0535, with Coke0001 and Coke0453.
6.31 That the Cincinnati performance did not happen. Coke0823, the Cincinnati and Hamilton County Public Library on the orchestra's cumulative repertoire list, 1895 to 21 April 1951.
7.1 "recently at Lucerne Mr Coke had an interview with Sergei Rachmaninov". Coke0156, with Coke0578.
7.2 The "lengthy interview" of March 1936. Coke0164.
7.3 The letter of 25 March 1936 about the songs. Coke0086, where Clive Jones quotes it.
7.4 The Second Symphony dedicated to Rachmaninoff. Coke0407, the first page of the full score; announced at Coke0569.
7.5 Natalia Rachmaninoff's invitation to tea, and her later thanks. Not traced to a catalogued document; see the last section.
7.6 Rachmaninoff at Sheffield, Derby and Nottingham six times between 1935 and 1939. Coke0027, Scott Davie's performance diary. Only 21 February 1939 is independently corroborated, at Coke0755.
7.7 Coke on Rachmaninoff as against Delius, Strauss, Elgar and Wagner. Coke0429, the Derby diary column of March 1937.
7.8 Brahms's Second Symphony "heavy-footed and manufactured", Musical Opinion, March 1941. Coke0201.
7.9 The reply of the following month. Coke0203.
7.10 The jazz letter of July 1936, "the jazz hacks", and "I should not go on to the musical streets and prostitute talents". Coke0161.
7.11 The memorial service at the Russian church, Buckingham Palace Road, with "Mr. Roger Coke" seventh in the list. Coke0007.
7.12 The memorial concert at Brookhill six weeks later. Coke0224, the flyer; reviewed at Coke0525.
8.1 The diary itself, thirteen openings, in pencil. Coke0072.
8.2 4 February, "Roger went to Alderley Edge to see Dr Craig. Frightful business getting him off early." Coke0073, which carries two leaves of the diary; the rest of the diary is Coke0072.
8.3 9 February, "He came back much worse." Coke0072.
8.4 18 February, Nottingham, Dr Tennant, "but refused to sign". Coke0072.
8.5 21 February, an hour and a half in the music room. Coke0072.
8.6 4 March, "The Kirkby police rang up and he had been on the line." Coke0072; Griselda Brook's side of it at Coke0016.
8.7 The walks along the line and the signal boxes, and the levers. Coke0016; the levers and that the signalmen were her friends too, Coke0826, the notes of the meeting with Griselda Brook, 18 September 2026.
8.8 Griselda Brook born 10 December 1938. Simon Callaghan, 18 September 2026, from the family.
8.9 The ordinary entries beside the bad days. Coke0072.
8.10 Dr Craig's four guineas, Dr Tennant's seven, Dr Johnstone's bill, and the cigarettes. Coke0073.
8.11 Three pounds for copying, June 1944. Coke0073.
9.1 Augener, Steinway, His Majesty's Printer, Goodwin and Tabb, Boosey and Hawkes, and the copyist. Coke0073. The Goodwin and Tabb and His Majesty's Printer entries are wording to check.
9.2 "Fairhurst fee R 14. 14." Coke0073.
9.3 Fairhurst and Sela Trau in the London premiere of the Elegiac Trio. Coke0051, the Queen Mary Hall programme of 8 July 1943.
9.4 "Roger for Liverpool 5" and "Roger for London 3", December 1943. Coke0073.
9.5 "R's concert", 27 October 1942, eight pounds six shillings and sixpence. Coke0073.
9.6 The thirtieth birthday concert at Nottingham, 25 October 1942: The Lotos Eaters and the Second Vocal Concerto with Barbara Welby, Coke conducting. Coke0037, the wrapper with his own note of the premiere; Coke0627 and Coke0809, his programme notes; Coke0629.
9.7 The two-page life printed over the Hinrichsen name in 1946. Coke0039, the mounted cutting. Its date and its attribution to a catalogue come from a handwritten annotation beside it, not from a masthead.
9.8 Barbara Welby asking whether Hinrichsen had relinquished all claim. Coke0067.
9.9 The Hinrichsen label "No. 661a." and the Wardour Street stamp. Coke0037; a third sighting at Coke0797.
9.10 The Hinrichsen imprint inked out on the Elegiac Ballade. Coke0036; a second cancelled imprint at Coke0789.
9.11 Griselda Brook on the furniture and pictures sold to pay for The Cenci. Coke0042 and Coke0329.
9.12 That Coke appears in no list of Hinrichsen publications, and that 661a is not in the firm's numerical sequence, where 661 is a wind trio by Kennaway. Coke0822, Andrew Hanley of the Edition Peters Group, 11 September 2026.
9.13 Hinrichsen's Year Book as an almanac of English musical life, and the 1944 volume among Coke's papers, with the Committee for the Promotion of New Music and Coke's name in two of its lists. Coke0309.
10.1 Manchester, May 1941, the Variations, and the squeaky piano stool. Coke0280; the programme at Coke0214.
10.2 The dozen works carrying a second date of 1950. Coke0062.
10.3 "Aunt Belle" to Coke, 25 February 1950: working again, the handwriting, and the wish that the BBC would do some of his things. Coke0071.
10.4 The two Wigmore Hall concerts of 3 and 10 October 1950. Coke0056 and Coke0055, the programmes; Coke0058, the flyer.
10.5 Barbara Welby as a great-granddaughter of Jenny Lind, singing under the name Lind. Coke0021; Coke0347.
10.6 Her marriage to Sir Oliver Welby, the dedication of the Second Vocal Concerto to him, and her authorship of its text. Coke0038 and Coke0037.
10.7 Watson Forbes, the Viola Sonata, and the eight songs. Coke0055; the sonata at Coke0817.
10.8 Marianne Mislap-Kapper and the two scenes from Act 2 of The Cenci. Coke0055, with Coke0058.
10.9 Watson Forbes to Coke's mother, 18 October 1950: "the generous cheque", "the viola sonata went so well", and the advice about Manchester or Birmingham. Coke0065.
10.10 Barbara Welby's offer to place the concertos, and "the musical world is tough going!" Coke0067.
10.11 Nothing broadcast between August 1939 and August 1971. Coke0043, the Genome printout.
10.12 The Stage on the 1950 series: the "general depression", and the "connoisseur-pieces". Coke0354.
10.13 The 1951 Wigmore concert, the three cello sonatas with Sela Trau. Coke0296, the flyer; Coke0549.
10.14 Richard Capell in the Daily Telegraph, 8 October 1951. Coke0235.
10.15 The Stage, "As beginner's efforts they showed great promise." Coke0236, with Coke0549.
10.16 The Times on the 1956 concert, the nostalgia and the flaccid effect, and the advice about Bartok and Stravinsky. Coke0288; the cutting also at Coke0008.
10.17 Martin Cooper in the Daily Telegraph, the "Rachmaninov-follower" and the "invertebrate piano style". Coke0284.
10.18 Hugo Meynell on the Elegiac Trio's first movement and its scherzo. Coke0089, with Coke0153, Coke0221 and Coke0723.
10.19 The Gramophone letter on Bax, January 1956. Coke0011 and Coke0040.
10.20 Rachmaninoff's opinion of Bax and the Third Symphony. Coke0011 and Coke0040.
10.21 Meynell in the Derbyshire Advertiser, "no chasing of systems or flogging of theories". Coke0285.
10.22 The consoling paragraph a week later, "was well attended", and the single word No in the album. Coke0286, with Coke0276.
11.1 The opera begun in 1940 and worked at for twenty years. Coke0006, the earliest dated reference to it in progress; Coke0533.
11.2 The Scala Theatre, the London Symphony Orchestra and Goossens. Coke0548 and Coke0551; the handbill at Coke0187.
11.3 Griselda Brook on the furniture and pictures, and "No, The Cenci was a critical disaster!" Coke0042 and Coke0329.
11.4 Given once, 5 November 1959. Coke0550; the cast at Coke0550 and Coke0551.
11.5 Donald Mitchell, "of melody, of vocal melody least of all", and The Times on the unendliche Melodie. Coke0290.
11.6 Eric Mason in the Daily Mail, and the Star notices. Coke0291.
11.7 "New 'Cenci' Opera Lacks Everything". Coke0550, with Coke0354 for The Stage's earlier notice.
11.8 Ballachey's visit of 22 October 1959 and "get it across". Coke0387, with Coke0094.
11.9 Goossens on the "frightening spectacle" of Act 2, and the days and nights of orchestrating. Coke0389, with Coke0094.
11.10 "There is no room for sentiment in such an emergency." Coke0389.
11.11 The account: ninety-two pounds seventeen shillings on top of a hundred guineas, and the remark about personal friendship. Coke0393 and Coke0388; Coke0392.
11.12 "you will realise how utterly useless your manuscript is for any practical purposes". Coke0396.
11.13 The question of a recording from one of the boxes. Coke0390, with Coke0394.
11.14 The Festival Hall proposal of 1960, the four scores sent, and "What classical work shall we have to off set these". Coke0384 and Coke0397; Coke0402 gives the durations and the refusal; Coke0398 the conditions; Coke0403 the final refusal.
11.15 The backing to come from the sale of trees. Coke0385.
12.1 The Variations, opus 73, and Julie Baud. Coke0815, the manuscript, which carries the dedication in Coke's own hand: "affectionately dedicated to Julie Marie Baud." Coke0044 records a song dedicated to her as well; the two stand together.
12.2 The six Emily Brontë settings of 1954. Coke0638, Coke0639 and Coke0730.
12.3 The Tagore settings of 1956. Coke0808 and Coke0806.
12.4 The de la Mare settings of 1957, and "Thule" of 1958. Coke0803; Coke0811 and Coke0812.
12.5 June Chambers singing "Thule" at the Nottingham Tuesday Music Club, February 1958. Coke0811, with Coke0336.
12.6 The Yeats settings and the Lawrence settings. Coke0807; Coke0821.
12.7 The abandoned works: the Violin Concerto of 1960, the String Quartet of 1971, the Piano Quintet, the Second Trio. Coke0317; Coke0316; Coke0318 and Coke0320; Coke0322.
12.8 The surviving movement of the Fifth Concerto, "The Orton", and the direction con dignità. Coke0777 and Coke0778.
12.9 The two printed lists of works, 1950 and January 1958. Coke0062 and Coke0063; further copies at Coke0195, Coke0307, Coke0308, Coke0312, Coke0628 and Coke0640.
12.10 Innes-Smith naming four works printed at Coke's own expense. Coke0111.
12.11 That the four were seven, with years and shelfmarks. Coke0753, the Library Hub search.
12.12 Coke holding the copyright, Chappell engraving, Lowe and Brydone printing. Coke0754, from direct examination; confirmed independently at Coke0794.
12.13 "At considerable expense he had these beautifully produced works sent out." Coke0111.
12.14 The piles of printed work on the music room floor in 1971. Coke0018.
12.15 The Wright of Derby and the Pinxton china sold to pay for it. Coke0081; Coke0111.
12.16 "All details from R. S. Coke, from whom scores of his work may be obtained." Coke0062 and Coke0063.
12.17 The two Music and Letters reviews, October 1961 and January 1970. Coke0335 and Coke0332; both verified at Coke0752.
12.18 The British Library and the other library holdings. Coke0753, with Coke0821.
12.19 Grove, Blom's Everyman's and Musikens Hvem Hvad Hvor. Coke0063; the Danish entry itself at Coke0346.
12.20 "The following works have been broadcast by the B.B.C." and the seven items. Coke0063.
12.21 The five that can be matched to a date, and the naming of the three op. 19 songs. Coke0043; the 1936 Midland broadcast at Coke0409, Coke0490 and Coke0510.
12.22 The Sixth Piano Concerto entry struck out by hand. Coke0063; not struck out in the second copy, Coke0640.
12.23 Sketches for it from 1954, 1965 and 1969. Coke0779; Coke0782 and Coke0781; Coke0780.
12.24 "Composed at Brookhill" across the top of the sheet. Coke0063.
12.25 The photograph in the music room with the piles of Preludes. Not traced; the printed Preludes are Coke0764.
12.26 Sixty cigarettes a day. Coke0016.
12.27 The Sunday Express of 18 December 1966, the thousand pounds, and the bankrupt company. Coke0035.
12.28 The Louth Gramophone Society and the misspelt name. Coke0189.
12.29 The 1971 diary, the practice hours and "No composing", and "Fifteen years today since I played in London". Coke0086.
12.30 "a man ought to have achieved something by fifty". Coke0086.
12.31 Abbotsholme, Gordon Clark, Moura Lympany and the two Preludes, September 1970. Coke0111, with Coke0086 and Coke0015.
12.32 The Radio 3 broadcast of 26 August 1971. Coke0043.
12.33 Sudbury Hall, Christopher Hyde-Smith, Marisa Robles and the commissions. Coke0111, with Coke0015.
12.34 "It was as if a door had opened", and the young people at Brookhill. Coke0111.
12.35 "You can only compose the music you feel", and the bitter disappointment. Coke0018.
12.36 Hazel Byard listening from the doorway. Coke0029.
12.37 Joy Fuller in 1963, the signed scores, and "as someday he may be properly recognised". Coke0030.
12.38 The letters to Brian Suter, 1963 to 1969. Coke0113 for "I have wanted a tenor for years"; Coke0121 for "Please dont call me Mr. Coke"; Coke0136 for the 55 days in hospital; Coke0116 for "rather unwell on and off".
12.39 Peter Wildsmith at the Pastures, the hospital piano, the kitchen at Brookhill, and "a wonderful musician and lovely gentleman". Coke0033, with Coke0034.
12.40 The new drug and the year free of illness. Coke0329, with Coke0340.
12.41 Death on 23 October 1972 of pulmonary oedema, chronic bronchitis and coronary atheroma. Coke0091.
12.42 The bicycle undamaged, the ditch, the Mansfield hospital, and the coroner. Coke0057, with Coke0019 and Coke0088.
12.43 The headstone inscription. Coke0828.
12.44 The tablet inside the church. Coke0828. Its dates for Dorothy Maye Coke and for Langton Sacheverell Coke are both wrong and neither has been followed.
12.45 The funeral of 28 October 1972, the Rev. R. L. Gwyther, Stephen Dye, about two hundred present, and the nephew's hired plane. Coke0088, with Coke0087 and Coke0061.
12.46 The Musical Times obituary of six lines. Coke0340.
12.47 "of private means" on the certificate, and "Musician and Composer" in the will. Coke0091.
12.48 The estate, the duty, and the four hundred pounds to Annie Graney. Coke0091.
12.49 Annie Graney in the wage column from 1944. Coke0073.
12.50 The Graneys at the lodge, Mr Graney's death about the outbreak of the war, and Annie's care of Roger. Coke0826, the notes of the meeting with Griselda Brook, 18 September 2026.
12.51 Christopher Darwin born 29 February 1944. Coke0826, the notes of the meeting with Griselda Brook, 18 September 2026.
12.52 The house left to him, and the 1974 sale by the two nephews. Coke0091; Coke0064.
12.53 The stable block held back from the sale, and Andrew Darwin's statement. Coke0077.
12.54 The contents sale of 27 November 1974, the lots, the crowd and the total. Coke0079 and Coke0080; the catalogue at Coke0066.
12.55 The tridarn "now at Holme Pierrepont Hall". Coke0066.
12.56 The Hugh Peters portrait and the loving cup, both on the schedule of heirlooms. Coke0020, with Coke0066 and Coke0080.
12.57 The birthplace given as London, against Alfreton everywhere else. Coke0091, against Coke0749.
13.1 The full score of the Third Piano Concerto found on 22 March 2012 inside a photocopy of The Cenci. Coke0017; the score itself is Coke0772; the same-day announcement at Coke0760.
13.2 The Alfreton Hall memorial concerts of 1973, 1974 and 1981. Coke0074, Coke0075 and Coke0050.
13.3 Alexander Baillie and Piers Lane in 1984, and BBC Wales on 14 November 1987. Coke0043; Coke0015 and Coke0183.
13.4 Linda Darnell at Mansfield, 15 September 1990. Coke0023.
13.5 Rob Barnett's 1992 life and his appeal for information. Coke0015, with Coke0183.
13.6 The modern recordings. Coke0738 for SOMM; Coke0739 and Coke0740 for Hyperion; Coke0748 for Lyrita; Coke0759 for the EM Records disc.
13.7 Where the papers are: Chesterfield, the Derbyshire Record Office, the British Library. Coke0092 and Coke0096; Coke0305; Coke0756 for the Goossens and Alan Bush shelfmarks; Coke0758 on the transfer, which is unresolved.
13.8 The Nottingham Journal in 1936 on the stable and the musical history. Coke0169.
These are in the biography and could not be tied to a document in the time available. None of them is doubted; they simply have no reference yet.
These three groups were uncatalogued when this list was first compiled. They were given archive numbers the same day and their notes files are in the depository.
Griselda Brook's date of birth, 10 December 1938, was supplied by Simon Callaghan from the family on 18 September 2026 and is recorded at Coke0826.
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This account draws on the Coke-Steel Collection, at Chesterfield Library and due to transfer to the Derbyshire Record Office at Matlock, which holds Coke's manuscripts and his albums of press cuttings; on the Coke family papers at the Derbyshire Record Office; on the Eugene Goossens correspondence at the British Library; on the British Newspaper Archive; on the private papers of Brian Suter and of Coke's family; and on two memoirs by his niece, Griselda Brook. The fullest study of his life and music is Simon Callaghan, 'Performing the Music of Roger Sacheverell Coke' (PhD thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2019), written at the Royal Northern College of Music. A works list and a list of every known performance of his music are on this site. Every statement here rests on a document in a catalogued research archive, and the reference for any of them can be supplied on request.
© Simon Callaghan 2026. The biography was written from my own research archive on Roger Sacheverell Coke, with AI assistance in drafting. Every statement in it rests on a document listed on this page.