Charles Philip Yorke

(1764-1834)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Yorke, Charles Philip, 1764-1834 NRA: Yorke Charles Philip (1764-1834) Statesman DNB: Yorke, Charles Philip (1764-1834), politician LBT ID: ChYorke1834 VIAF ID: 74684569 LOC ID: no93026162	B/BAP: 1764-03-12 DIED: 1834-03-13
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Tory politician, the son of Charles Yorke (1722–1770); he was MP for Cambridgeshire (1790-1810), secretary at war (1801-03), home secretary (1803-04), first lord of Admiralty (1810-11). He was F.S.A. and vice-president of the Royal Society of Literature.
REFERENCES TO Charles Philip Yorke: James Hodgson to Francis Hodgson, 28 March 1810 in Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Found 1: ¶ 2 Thomas Creevey to Eleanor Creevey, 19 January 1811 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 3 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch 19: Peter Pindar Found 2: ¶ 7 ¶ 1 Ch. 14: Private Life Found 1: ¶ 3 Ch. 15: Learned Societies Found 1: ¶ 8 Ch. 19: Club Law Found 1: ¶ 2 James Thomas Hodgson, Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Chapter VI. 1810. Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chapter IX. Found 1: ¶ 20 Creevey, Thomas, 1768-1838, The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Ch. VII: 1811