Thomas Coote was an English coal merchant and Liberal

Liberal Party (UK)

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 politician.

Coote was born at Fenstanton

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, Huntingdonshire

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, the son of Thomas Coote of St Ives, Huntingdonshire. He was educated privately and became a coal merchant in the firm of Coote & Son, Coal Merchants, of St. Ives

In the 1885 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1885

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, Coote was elected Member of Parliament

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 for Huntingdon

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 but lost the seat in the 1886 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1886

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Coote married in 1878, Elizabeth Pauline Day. They lived at Ambury House, Huntingdon.

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