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  CHARLES YORKE - LoveToKnow Article on CHARLES YORKE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Yorke, henceforward a member of the Rockingham party, was elected recorder of Dover in.
Yorke yielded to the kings entreaty, went to his brothers house, where he met the leaders of the Opposition, and feeling at once overwhelmed with shame, fled to his own house, where in three days he was a dead man (January 20, 1770).
Charles Yorkes second son by his second marriage was Sir Joseph Sydney Yorke (1768183 1), an admiral in the navy, whose son succeeded to the earldom of Hardwicke.
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 PHILIP YORKE, 1ST EARL HARDWICKE - LoveToKnow Article on PHILIP YORKE, 1ST EARL HARDWICKE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Charles Yorke (q.v.), the second son, became like his father lord chancellor; the third, Joseph, was a diplomatist, and was created Lord Dover; while James, the fifth son, became bishop of Ely.
YORKE (1757-1834), 3rd earl of Hardwicke, eldest son of Charles Yorke, lord chancellor, by his first wife, Catherine Freman, who was born on the 31st of May 1757 and was educated at Cambridge.
Charles Philip was born at Southampton on the 2nd of April 1799 and was educated at Harrow.
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 Charles Yorke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The second son of Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, he was born in London, and was educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
Yorke, henceforward a member of the Rockingham party, was elected recorder of Dover in 1764, and in 1765 he again became Attorney-General in the Rockingham administration, whose policy he did much to shape.
Yorke yielded to the King's entreaty, went to his brother's house, where he met the leaders of the Opposition, and feeling at once overwhelmed with shame, fled to his own house, where three days later he committed suicide (January 20, 1770).
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 Charles Philip Yorke, 4th Earl of Hardwicke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Charles Philip Yorke, 4th Earl of Hardwicke (April 2, 1799 - 1873), English admiral, was the eldest son of Admiral Sir Joseph Sydney Yorke (1768 - 1831), who was the second son of Charles Yorke, Lord Chancellor, by his second wife, Agneta Johnson.
Charles Philip was born in Southampton and was educated at Harrow.
He entered the Royal Navy in 1815, and served on the North American station and in the Mediterranean, attaining the rank of captain in 1825.
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 Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N., A Memoir [no accents] Story   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Yorke herself was at first opposed to the idea; but influenced by such opinions and by her husband's extreme dejection after refusing the offer, she ended by strongly urging him to accept, and was afterwards blamed for having encouraged his fatal ambition.
Yorke's acceptance and the loss which the King sustained by his death at that critical juncture, the most unprejudiced and dispassionate were surprised at the little, or rather no notice which was taken of his family; the not making an offer to complete the peerage was neither to be palliated nor justified in their opinion.
Young Charles Yorke was in command of a tender of the flagship which was moored near to his parent ship, and was consequently in the midst of the hottest fire, within sixty yards of the mouths of the enemy's guns, throughout the engagement.
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 Charles Philip Yorke biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Charles Philip Yorke (1764-1834), son of Charles Yorke, member of parliament for Cambridgeshire and afterwards for Liskeard, was Secretary of State for War and the Colonies in Addington's ministry in 1801, transferring to the Home Office in 1803, where he was a strong opponent of concession to the Roman Catholics.
In the same year Yorke joined Spencer Perceval's government as First Lord of the Admiralty; he retired from public life in 1818, and died in 1834.
Charles Yorke's second son by his second marriage was Sir Joseph Sydney Yorke (1768-1831), an admiral in the navy, whose son succeeded to the Earldom of Hardwicke.
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 Admiral
In the 27th Elizabeth, Charles, Lord Howard, had all the aforesaid titles, with the addition of captain-general of the navy and seas of the said kingdoms.
Charles took this occasion of reserving for his own use all the droits and perquisites claimed by the lord high admiral.
Under the departmental boards things certainly improved from what they were in the time of Charles II, but they fell far short of what was desirable, and, by the vagueness of their administrative principle opened a door for irresponsible wrong-doing, which in the end made them exceedingly bad instruments of government.
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 Yorke Family Deaths
Admiral Sir Joseph Sydney Yorke KCB † [= Yorke Family Tree] is interred in the Hardwicke Family Vault beneath the Chicheley Chapel in Wimpole Parish Church.
Philip Yorke † [= Yorke Family Tree] is interred with his wife and three of his sons in the central alter tomb in the Chicheley Chapel.
Sir Joseph Sydney Yorke, by Elizabeth Weake, daughter of Mr James Rattray, of Atherstone, Warwickshire, and next surviving brother of the present Earl of Hardwicke.
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 Charles Yorke -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Charles Yorke (30 December 1722-20 January 1770) was (The highest officer of the Crown who is head of the judiciary and who presides in the House of Lords) Lord Chancellor of (An island comprising England and Scotland and Wales) Great Britain.
The second son of (Click link for more info and facts about Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke) Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, he was born in London, and was educated at (Click link for more info and facts about Corpus Christi College, Cambridge) Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
Yorke, henceforward a member of the (English statesman who served as prime minister and who opposed the war with the American colonies (1730-1782)) Rockingham party, was elected recorder of Dover in 1764, and in 1765 he again became Attorney-General in the Rockingham administration, whose policy he did much to shape.
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 Obituary of the 4th Earl of Hardwicke
His next appointment was to the command, in 1823, of the Alacrity, on the Mediterranean station, where he was actively employed, both before and after obtaining his rank as Captain, in watching the movements of the Turco-Egyptian forces and in the suppression of piracy.
His title devolves upon his eldest son, Charles Philip, Viscount Royston, [= Yorke Family Tree] late Controller of Her Majesty's Household, who has sat as one of the representatives of Cambridgeshire in the House of Commons in the Conservative interest since 1865.
[Taken from an Essay written in 1914 by Alexander Campbell Yorke 1851-1925, Rector of Fowlmere, 5th and yougest son of Henry Reginald Yorke 1802-1871, Rector of Wimpole and brother of the 4th Earl of Hardwicke; the author was then a man of 62 and remembering his childhood at Wimpole Rectory.
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 Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
On the formation of a government by the Duke of Devonshire in 1756, Charles Yorke was sworn in, at the early age of thirty-three, as Solicitor-General, and retained that office through the elder Pitt's glorious administration.
Charles Yorke's share in this action, together with his later services, is recorded on a tablet, next to a similar one to Lord Exmouth, in the English chapel at Algiers, by his daughter, the writer of the present memoir.
Charles Yorke, having attained the rank of commander in May of 1822, was in August of the same year appointed to the command of the sloop Alacrity, and in her sailed to the Mediterranean in the autumn, anchoring at Gibraltar on November 29.
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 Charles Yorke - Frequently asked questions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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Every piece of Charles Yorke furniture is fully guaranteed for 5 years.
Charles Yorke has made its reputation in the kitchen, but is equally at home in the bedroom, study or bathroom.
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 Earl of Hardwicke   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Charles Philip Yorke, 4th Earl of Hardwicke (1799-1873)
Charles Philip Yorke, 5th Earl of Hardwicke (1836-1897)
Charles Alexander Yorke, 8th Earl of Hardwicke (1869-1936)
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 Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The son of George III's close adviser Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool, Robert Jenkinson was educated at Charterhouse School and Christ's College, Cambridge.
February, 1822 - Charles Williams Wynn succeeds Charles Bathurst at the Board of Control.
January, 1823 - Vansittart, elevated to the peerage as Lord Bexley, succeeds Charles Bathurst as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.
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 Yorke Monumental Inscriptions
Charles Philip Yorke † (= Yorke Family Tree) died 13 March 1834, body interred 20 March 1834 in the Hardwicke Family Vault.
Charles Yorke † [= Yorke Family Tree] died 28 Dec 1791, interred 12 January 1792.
Charles James Yorke † [= Yorke Family Tree] died 30 April 1810, interred 6 May 1810.
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 United Kingdom Postmaster General - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Charles Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond and Lennox 1830-1834
Charles Philip Yorke, 4th Earl of Hardwicke 1852
Charles Stewart Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 6th Marquess of Londonderry 1900-1902
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 Yorke - new and used books
Joseph Yorke, Baron Dover (1724-92), diplomat, fought at Fontenoy and Culloden, and became ambassador to The Hague.
Of Yorke we have discovered nothing, except that in 1787 he published another play, Iphigenia, adapted from a tragedy by Algarotti; this play was also privately printed, in a very similar format.
Yorke is one of the masters of the psychological novel and this is recommended.
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 Pehoushek / Cristman - pafg96 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Charles Freeman Dyer was born on 1 Oct 1856 in St.John,, New Brunswick.
Charles Yorke Dyer [Parents] was born on 28 Feb 1896 in Ketchikan, Gateway, Alaska.
Charles Parker Dyer was born on 12 Jan 1924 in San de Fuca,Island,Washington.
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 Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The son of George III 's close adviser Charles Jenkinson 1st Earl of Liverpool Robert Jenkinson was educated at Charterhouse School and Christ's College Cambridge.
January 1821 - Charles Bathurst succeeds Canning as of the Board of Control remaining also the Duchy of Lancaster.
February 1822 - Charles Williams Wynn succeeds Charles at the Board of Control.
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 District Council of Yorke Peninsula - History and Heritage - Town By Town
The possessive 'S' in Yorke's was omitted in about 1940 in accordance with the practice recommended by the International Cartographic Society.
Broadly speaking the basic rock structure of Yorke Peninsula is about 500 million years old and was covered by sand and lime sediments.
When Yorke Peninsula was first settled the ketches were the main means of transport.
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 Kitchen and Bathroom News @ The K&BZine
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The kitchen is then built in Charles Yorke’s Nottingham factory by a team of skilled craftsmen using a combination of traditional cabinet making skills and state of the art technology.
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 Index to royal Genealogical Data - ordered by lastname - part 104   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Yorke, Charles Alexander, Earl of Hardwicke 8th, b.
Yorke, Charles Philip, Earl of Hardwicke 4th, b.
Yorke, Charles Philip, Earl of Hardwicke 5th, b.
www.dcs.hull.ac.uk /genealogy/royal/gedx104.html   (783 words)

  
 Blackstone's Commentaries - Book the Fourth - Appendix
Whereupon the fheriff of the county aforefaid is commanded, that he omit not for any liberty in his bailiwick, but that he take the faid Peter Hunt, if he may be found in his bailiwick, and him fafely keep, to anfwer to the felony and murder whereof he ftands indicted.
And upon this it is forthwith demanded of the faid Peter Hunt, if he hath or knoweth any thing to fay, wherefore the faid juftices here ought not upon the premifes and verdict aforefaid to proceed to judgment and executions him: who nothing farther faith, unlefs as he before had faid.
And it is his majefty's command, that execution of the faid fentence upon them the faid Charles King and Mary Smith be refpited, until his majefty's pleafure touching them be farther known.
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 Caledon, Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Among the Caledon papers are the family letters and papers of the Blount, Freeman and Yorke families of Tyttenhanger, Hertfordshire, 1723-1856.
Some of the papers derive from the Hon Charles Yorke, Lord Chancellor of England in 1770, who had married the Freeman heiress in 1755.
[Illustration of Charles Yorke.] In 1811, the 2nd Earl of Caledon married Lady Catherine Freeman Yorke, daughter of the 3rd Earl of Hardwicke [illustration of the 3rd Earl of Hardwicke].
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 Meyer Boswell Books, Inc   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Brief for Grand Jurors in the County of New York.
Reports of Cases in the Vice Admiralty of the Province of New York and in the Court of Admiralty of the State of New York, 1715-1788.
The Association of the Bar of the City of New York, New York, 1947.
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 Wrangham (part II)
Oldham, 1873-76; vicar of St. John, Ousebridge (or Micklegate), York, 1876-82; vicar of Fulford, Yorkshire, 1882-89; vicar of Brodsworth, Yorkshire, 1889.
Married 2ndly March 2nd 1848 the Reverend Charles Watkin Wynne Eyton, B.D., (died January 21st 1870), Rector of Aston Clinton, Buckinghamshire, son of the Reverend Hope Eyton (born November 19th 1754) of Leeswood, vicar of Mod, and his wife Margaret Wynne, only daughter and heiress of Robert Wynne of The Tower, Flintshire.
Married December 20th 1969 her 6th cousin Charles Fitzgerald Raikes (born October 6th 1930), son of Arthur Fitzgerald Raikes, M.C. (born May 17th 1897 in Minneapolis, U.S.A., and died May 15th 1972), and his first wife Margaret Virginia Hawthorne (died 1952).
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 Charles Townshend Papers Calendar
Miscellaneous papers, including Parliamentary inquiry into conduct of Ministers and Commanders in time of war from King Charles II to 1745; reports of committee on weights and measures, 1760; account of linen cloth in Scotland 1727-1754; short account of Newfoundland Fishery; Townshend's speech on Sir William Baker's contract; Samuel Waldo's case re.
Letters, 1756, 1764-1767; correspondence between Charles Townshend, General Conway, Duke of Grafton, William Dowdeswell, William Pitt, Sir Edward Walpole, Charles Yorke, Duke of Newcastle, Lord Bute, William Alexander.
A Plan for attacking the Spanish settlements in the West Indies in the north and south seas in case of a war with that nation, n.d.
www.clements.umich.edu /Webguides/T/Index_T/TownCal.html   (2116 words)

  
 thePeerage.com - Person Page 5012
Lady Susan Yorke was the daughter of John Manners Yorke, 7th Earl of Hardwicke and Edith Mary Oswald.
Claude John Yorke was the son of John Manners Yorke, 7th Earl of Hardwicke and Edith Mary Oswald.
Claude John Yorke, son of John Manners Yorke, 7th Earl of Hardwicke and Edith Mary Oswald, on 28 April 1914.
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