Charles Yorke PC (30 December 1722 – 20 January 1770) was a British politician who briefly served as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain. His father...
12 KB (1,097 words) - 18:19, 4 August 2024
Charles Philip Yorke PC FRS FSA (12 March 1764 – 13 March 1834) was a British politician. He notably served as Home Secretary from 1803 to 1804. He sat...
9 KB (447 words) - 15:38, 29 January 2024
Charles Yorke (1722–1770) was Lord Chancellor of Great Britain. Charles Yorke may also refer to: Charles Yorke, 4th Earl of Hardwicke (1799–1873), British...
492 bytes (91 words) - 18:30, 19 January 2013
British politician. Born in Cambridge, England, he was the eldest son of Charles Yorke, Lord Chancellor, by his first wife, Catherine Freman. He was educated...
8 KB (544 words) - 03:09, 27 September 2024
Admiral Charles Philip Yorke, 4th Earl of Hardwicke, PC (2 April 1799 – 17 September 1873) was a British naval commander and Conservative politician. Born...
15 KB (1,341 words) - 13:37, 4 October 2024
Thomas Edward Yorke (born 7 October 1968) is an English musician who is the main vocalist and songwriter of the rock band Radiohead. He plays guitar,...
149 KB (14,144 words) - 10:00, 14 October 2024
York (surname) (redirect from Yorke (surname))
Yorke (born 1972), British musician Barbara Yorke (born 1951), British historian Charles Philip Yorke (1764–1834), British politician Charles Yorke,...
5 KB (714 words) - 19:47, 20 March 2024
as Attorney-General. Pratt was preferred over Solicitor General Charles Yorke. Yorke was the son of Lord Hardwicke, a political ally of Newcastle who...
36 KB (4,234 words) - 20:06, 25 August 2024
Charles Philip Yorke, 5th Earl of Hardwicke, PC, DL (23 April 1836 – 18 May 1897), styled Viscount Royston until 1873, was a British aristocrat, Conservative...
9 KB (590 words) - 07:02, 13 August 2024
Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, PC, FRS (9 March 1720 – 16 May 1790), styled Viscount Royston between 1754 and 1764, was an English politician and...
8 KB (660 words) - 21:46, 15 August 2024
Richard Francis Charles Yorke (28 July 1885 – 22 December 1914) was a British track and field athlete who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics and in...
3 KB (179 words) - 23:45, 14 July 2024
General Yorke may refer to: Charles Yorke (British Army officer) (1790–1880), British Army general John Yorke (British Army officer) (1814–1890), British...
377 bytes (76 words) - 12:27, 18 May 2024
Field Marshal Sir Charles Yorke GCB (7 December 1790 – 20 November 1880) was a senior British Army officer. He fought in many of the battles of the Peninsular...
10 KB (870 words) - 23:00, 15 August 2024
Earl of Hardwicke (category Yorke family)
succeeded by his nephew, the third Earl. He was the son of the Hon. Charles Yorke, second son of the first Earl. He was a prominent politician and served...
10 KB (1,213 words) - 15:00, 15 July 2024
The Cruizer class was an 18-gun class of brig-sloops of the Royal Navy. Brig-sloops were the same as ship-sloops except for their rigging. A ship-sloop...
28 KB (1,547 words) - 20:31, 3 July 2024
until 1904, was a British naval commander and peer. Yorke was the second son of Admiral Charles Yorke, 4th Earl of Hardwicke, by the Honourable Susan, daughter...
2 KB (204 words) - 07:02, 13 August 2024
Wars. Yorke was born in Great Berkhampstead, Hertfordshire, on 6 June 1768, the second son, by his second marriage, of the politician Charles Yorke. He...
18 KB (1,508 words) - 22:35, 27 March 2024
and his wife Lady Elizabeth (née Yorke), the son and daughter of the then-Thomas Coke, Viscount Coke and Charles Yorke, 8th Earl of Hardwicke, respectively...
20 KB (1,918 words) - 16:47, 8 September 2024
run by Samuel Morland, a nonconformist. At age 16, Yorke entered the attorney's office of Charles Salkeld in Holborn, London. He was entered at the Middle...
20 KB (2,085 words) - 16:00, 5 September 2024
Charles Alexander Yorke, 8th Earl of Hardwicke (11 November 1869 – 1 February 1936) was a British peer. Yorke was born in 1869. He succeeded as the 8th...
6 KB (439 words) - 00:47, 24 January 2023
7th Earl of Sandwich. His mother was Lady Agneta Harriet, daughter of Charles Yorke, 4th Earl of Hardwicke. He was Assistant Private Secretary to the Board...
8 KB (621 words) - 12:34, 3 October 2024
opinion, also known as the Camden-Yorke opinion, was a 1757 official legal opinion that was issued jointly by Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, the Attorney...
9 KB (1,270 words) - 17:30, 12 June 2024
Balcarres. He was the grandson of Charles Yorke and the nephew of Charles Philip Yorke and Sir Joseph Sydney Yorke. He was educated at Harrow School and...
4 KB (396 words) - 14:44, 29 January 2024
Matilda Abigail née Stanley, Adeane married Lady Elizabeth Yorke, daughter of Charles Yorke (also MP for Cambridgeshire between 1832 and 1834) and Susan...
6 KB (302 words) - 06:40, 13 August 2024
Woty. Partridge-Shooting, an eclogue to the Hon. Charles Yorke, 1764. This piece was suggested by Yorke. The Works of Horace in English Verse, by Mr. Duncombe...
8 KB (1,095 words) - 23:55, 26 August 2024
The Prince of Wales served as prince regent from 5 February 1811. Charles Yorke, who had been associated with the opposition, was persuaded to accept...
90 KB (1,292 words) - 00:20, 4 October 2024
the style and precedence of the younger son of an earl. His brother (Charles Yorke, 4th Earl of Hardwicke) was a British naval commander and Conservative...
2 KB (251 words) - 01:49, 5 March 2024
Robert Henley (3 November 1756 – 1 July 1757) Charles Pratt (1 July 1757 – 25 January 1762) Charles Yorke (25 January 1762 – 16 December 1763) Fletcher...
55 KB (3,084 words) - 05:16, 25 September 2024
Lord Monson and causing a by-election. Joseph Sydney Yorke's death caused a by-election. Charles Yorke resigned in order to contest a by-election at Cambridgeshire...
89 KB (1,970 words) - 21:12, 9 October 2024
grandson of William Craven, 1st Earl of Craven) and Lady Mary Yorke (second daughter of Charles Yorke, 4th Earl of Hardwicke). They had two daughters: Lady Muriel...
19 KB (1,474 words) - 05:12, 3 October 2024