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. | |