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| NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Yorke, Charles, 1722-1770 NRA: Yorke, Charles (1722-1770) Lord Chancellor DNB: Yorke, Charles (1722–1770), lord chancellor LBT ID: ChYorke1770 VIAF ID: 64437946 LOC ID: nr93012273 | B/BAP: 1722-12-30 DIED: 1770-01-20 |
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The second son of Philip Yorke, first earl of Hardwicke (1690–1764); educated at Corpus
Christi College, Cambridge and Lincoln's Inn, he was solicitor-general (1756), MP for
Reigate (1747-68) and the University of Cambridge (1768), and, for three days before his
death, lord chancellor. | |
