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Charles Philip Yorke

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Monarch
  
George III

Political party
  
Tory

Died
  
March 13, 1834

Prime Minister
  
Henry Addington

Spouse(s)
  
Harriott Manningham

Parents
  
Charles Yorke

Preceded by
  
Lord Pelham

Name
  
Charles Yorke

Party
  
Tories

Nationality
  
British

Role
  
British Politician


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Born
  
12 March 1764 (
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Succeeded by
  
Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool

Grandparents
  
Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, Margaret Cocks

Great-grandparents
  
Philip Yorke, Elizabeth Gibbon, Charles Cocks, 1st Baron Somers

Charles Philip Yorke PC, FRS, FSA (12 March 1764 – 13 March 1834), was a British politician. He notably served as Home Secretary from 1803 to 1804.

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Political career

He sat as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Cambridgeshire from 1790 to 1810 and afterwards for Liskeard from 1812 to 1818. In 1801 he was appointed Secretary at War in Henry Addington's ministry, transferring to the Home Office in 1803, where he was a strong opponent of concession to the Roman Catholics. He made himself exceedingly unpopular in 1810 by bringing about the exclusion of strangers, including reporters for the press, from the House of Commons under the standing order, which led to the imprisonment of Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Baronet in the Tower and to riots in London. In the same year, Yorke joined Spencer Perceval's government as First Lord of the Admiralty. He retired from public life in 1818.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1801.

Family

Yorke was the second son of the Hon. Charles Yorke and grandson of Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke. His mother was Agneta, daughter of Henry Johnstone. His brother was Admiral Sir Joseph Sidney Yorke (1768–1831), whose son succeeded to the earldom of Hardwicke.

Yorke married Harriott, daughter of Charles Manningham, in 1790. They had no children. He died in March 1834, one day after his 70th birthday.

He had a natural son, Charles Eurwicke Douglas.

Legacy

In 1802, Matthew Flinders named Yorke Peninsula in South Australia after Yorke.

References

Charles Philip Yorke Wikipedia