NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1720-1790 NRA: Yorke, Philip (1720-1790) 2nd Earl of Hardwicke DNB: Yorke, Philip, second earl of Hardwicke (1720–1790), politician and writer LBT ID: LdHardw2 VIAF ID: 50067453 LOC ID: n83040476 | B/BAP: 1720-12-09 DIED: 1790-05-16 |
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The son of the first earl (d. 1764), he was educated Corpus Christi College, Cambridge,
and was MP for Reigate, Surrey (1741-47). He was a writer and antiquary. | |
REFERENCES TO WORKS BY Philip Yorke, second earl of Hardwicke:
Athenian Letters: or, the Epistolary Correspondence of an Agent of the King of
Persia, residing at Athens during the Peloponnsian War. Containing the History of the
Times, in Dispatches to the Ministers of State at the Persian Court. Found 1.
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