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Henry Reginald Yorke (30 October 1803 – 26 September 1871)
[1] was
Archdeacon of Huntington from 22 March 1856 to 16 March 1870.
[2]
The son of
Joseph Sydney Yorke,
[3] he was born in
Bursledon, educated at
Harrow School and
St John's College, Cambridge,
[4] and
ordained in 1827. He held
incumbencies at
Aspenden and
Wimpole; was a
JP for
Cambridgeshire; and a
Canon at
Ely Cathedral from 1859 until his death; he was granted, with his brother's succession to the peerage (in 1834), the style and precedence of the younger son of an earl.
[5]
His brother (
Charles Yorke, 4th Earl of Hardwicke) was a British naval commander and
Conservative politician;
[6] and his brother-in-law —
Robert Cooper Lee Bevan — an eminent banker.
[7] His son
Horatio Arthur Yorke was Chief Inspector for Railways from 1900 to 1913.
References
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^ Death of the Hon. and Ven. H. R. Yorke.
The Times (London, England), Thursday, 28 September 1871; p. 6; Issue 27180
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^ Horn, Joyce M., ed. (1992),
Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857, vol. 7, pp. 14–15
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^ United Service Magazine. pp. 215–217.
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^
"Yorke, Henry Reginald (YRK820HR)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge. Retrieved 19 October 2017.
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^
Mosley, Charles (ed.) Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 1. (
Wilmington, Delaware:
Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003). p. 470.
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^ "Yorke, Charles Philip".
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press.
doi:
10.1093/ref:odnb/30240. (Subscription or
UK public library membership required.)
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^
Our History. Christ Church, Cockfosters. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
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