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    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...
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    Philip Yorke, 3rd Earl of Hardwicke, KG, PC, FRS (31 May 1757 – 18 November 1834), known as Philip Yorke until 1790, was a British politician. Born in...
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    Charles Yorke PC (30 December 1722 – 20 January 1770) was briefly Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain. His father was also Lord Chancellor, and he began...
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    Admiral Charles Philip Yorke, 4th Earl of Hardwicke, PC (2 April 1799 – 17 September 1873) was a British naval commander and Conservative politician. Born...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    Earl of Hardwicke (category Yorke family)
    a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created in 1754 for Philip Yorke, 1st Baron Hardwicke, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain from 1737...
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    Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, PC (1 December 1690 – 6 March 1764) was an English lawyer and politician who served as Lord High Chancellor of Great...
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    Hundreds" in 1810 so that his brother, Charles Philip Yorke, could be elected. In the 1812 general election Joseph Yorke stood as a candidate for Sandwich...
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  • in the United Kingdom. Yorke was born on 13 October 1799, the eldest son of Philip Yorke and Anna Maria, daughter of Charles Cocks, 1st Baron Somers...
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  • Yorke (born 1972), British musician Barbara Yorke (born 1951), British historian Charles Philip Yorke (1764–1834), British politician Charles Yorke,...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    was named "Yorke's Peninsula" by Captain Matthew Flinders, after Charles Philip Yorke (later Lord Hardwicke), narrowly beating French navigator Captain...
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    Castlereagh succeeds Dartmouth at the Board of Control. August 1803 – Charles Philip Yorke succeeds Pelham as Home Secretary. Fisher, David R. "The 'New Opposition'...
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  • Philip Yorke (30 July 1743 – 19 February 1804) was a Welsh politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1775 and 1792 and an antiquary who developed...
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    at St. Margaret's, Westminster, the son of George III's close adviser Charles Jenkinson, later the first Earl of Liverpool, and his first wife, Amelia...
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    in its broad outlines, be detected in the early years of the reign of Charles II. House of Commons Constitutional Affairs Committee (17 July 2007). "The...
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    Albert Edward Philip Henry Yorke, 6th Earl of Hardwicke, DL (14 March 1867 – 29 November 1904), styled Viscount Royston between 1873 and 1897, was a British...
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    both as a lawyer and as a man of letters, who died in 1851." Rawlings, Philip, Hackman, James (bap. 1752, d. 1779), in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography...
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    his fame waned. In April 1748, Anson married Lady Elizabeth Yorke, daughter of Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke; they had no children. Warships named...
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    by-election. Sturt married on 25 June 1883 Lady Féodorovna Yorke, daughter of Charles Philip Yorke, 5th Earl of Hardwicke. In 1897, she was one of the guests...
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    George III George IV Prime Minister The Earl of Liverpool Preceded by Charles Philip Yorke Succeeded by The Duke of Clarence (Lord High Admiral) In office 1828–1830...
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    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...
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  • at East Grinstead Richard Wellesley sought re-election at East Grinstead Yorke sought re-election at St Germans Stopford sought re-election at Marlborough...
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    Sir George Yonge, Bt 1783 1794 William Windham 1794 1801 Charles Philip Yorke 1801 1803 Charles Bragge 1803 1804 William Dundas 1804 1806 Richard FitzPatrick...
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    Simon Yorke I (1696-1767), cousin of Philip Yorke, 1st Earl Of Hardwicke, maternal nephew of John Mellor, married Dorothy Hutton (d1787) Philip Yorke I (1743-1804)...
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    Knot member turned Cromwell agent - were plotting to kill the future King Charles II. About forty years after his death, a false ceiling was found in his...
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    Mulgrave succeeds Lord Chatham as Master-General of the Ordnance. Charles Philip Yorke succeeds Mulgrave as First Lord of the Admiralty. March 1812 – Lord...
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    Elizabeth Biddulph, Baroness Biddulph (category Yorke family)
    humanitarian and temperance leader. She published a biography of her father, Charles Yorke, 4th Earl of Hardwicke, and was appointed a Woman of the Bedchamber...
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