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John Yorke (c
John Yorke may refer to: *John Yorke (Master of the Mint) (c.1490-1569), English merchant and Member of Parliament for Boroughbridge *John Yorke (1633–1663), British Member of Parliament for Richmond *John Yorke (1685–1757), British Member of Parliament for Richmond *John Yorke (1728–1801), British Member of Parliament for Reigate and Higham Ferrers *John Yorke (British Army officer) (1814–1890), British general *John Yorke (Conservative politician) John Reginald Yorke (25 January 1836 – 2 March 1912) was an English landowner and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1864 and 1886. Background and education A member of the Yorke family headed by the Earl of Hardw ... (1836–1912), English landowner and Conservative politician * John Yorke, 7th Earl of Hardwicke (1840–1909), British naval commander * John Yorke (producer), BBC television producer See also * John York (other) {{hndis, Yorke, John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Yorke (Master Of The Mint)
Sir John York or Yorke (c.1490-1569) was an English merchant and landowner who became Master of the Mint and a Member of Parliament. Life Early career He was born about 1490,the third son of John Yorke, by his wife Katherine Patterdale or Patterdall. His grandfather, Sir Richard Yorke, was a merchant in York, and in 1466 was Mayor of the Staple at Calais. Sir Richard's son Thomas, John's uncle, was also a merchant, and John appears to have joined the family business and spent time as a merchant in Calais and Antwerp. On 3 September 1535 he arrived at Calais from Antwerp with intelligence of a sermon preached against King Henry VIII, by a friar in Antwerp. The Lord Deputy of Calais, Lord Lisle, passed on the report to Thomas Cromwell, and York received a reward. In 1544 he was appointed assay master to the Mint. In 1547 he was promoted to be Master of the Mint at Southwark, established in the former mansion of Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk. In 1549 he was sheriff o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Yorke (1633–1663)
Sir John Yorke (1633–1663) was an English politician, who sat in the House of Commons as member for the Richmond constituency in the North Riding of Yorkshire from 1661 to 1663. Family background John Yorke was born at Gouthwaite in Nidderdale, then in the West Riding of Yorkshire, in 1633, the son of John Yorke (c.1592-1638) and his second wife Katharine Daniel, a daughter of Sir Ingelby Daniel of Beswick and sister of the poet George Daniel. Career At the age of 4 he inherited his father's estates in Nidderdale. In 1658 he married Mary, daughter of Maulger Norton, his father's executor and MP for Richmond in 1640. Through his marriage he acquired property in Richmond. He was knighted at the Restoration court by Charles II in 1660. He was elected member for Richmond in the Cavalier Parliament of 1661. He became a friend of Lord Wharton, and was appointed to ten committees, but died near London on 3 April 1663. He was buried in St Chad's Church, Middlesmoor in Ni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Yorke (1685–1757)
John Yorke (1685 – 1757), of Gouthwaite Hall and Richmond, Yorkshire, was an English Whig politician, who sat in the House of Commons between 1710 and 1757 with two short intervals. Yorke was baptized on 16 December 1685, the son of Thomas Yorke (1658-1716), MP for Richmond between 1689 and 1716, and his wife Katherine Lister. He was educated at Eton College and was admitted at Peterhouse, Cambridge. Yorke was returned as Whig Member of Parliament for Richmond constituency on his father's interest at the 1710 British general election. He was inactive, but voted against the French commerce bill on 18 June 1713. At the 1713 British general election he stood down in favour of his father who was expecting tough competition at Richmond. After his father's death in 1716 he was again elected as MP for Richmond at a by-election on 5 March 1717. He served as an independent Whig. He lost his seat at the 1727 British general election, but petitioned the House of Lords and was dec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Yorke (1728–1801)
John Yorke (1728–1801) was an English barrister and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1753 to 1784. Life Yorke was the fourth son of Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke and his wife Margaret Cocks. Educated at Newcome's School, he matriculated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge in 1746, graduating M.A. in 1749. Admitted to Lincoln's Inn in 1746, he was called to the bar in 1754. Yorke held a number of legal sinecures, secured for him by his father as Lord Chancellor. In 1753 he was offered the parliamentary seat of , by Lord Rockingham, against his father's plans, and took it up. In practice he neglected the House of Commons, is not known to have spoken there, and lived much with his parents at Wimpole. He transferred in 1768 to the seat, which his brother Charles had given up, and retired as Member of Parliament in 1784. Yorke owned The Cedars, a prominent house in Sunninghill, Berkshire. He sold the house to the antiquary George Ellis. Family Yorke mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Yorke (British Army Officer)
General John Yorke CB (1814–1890) was a British Army officer. Military career Born the son of Simon Yorke II of Erddig (1771–1834) and Margaret Holland (1778–1848), Yorke was commissioned as a cornet in the 1st (Royal) Regiment of Dragoons on 21 December 1832. He was promoted to lieutenant on 5 December 1834, to captain on 14 December 1841, to major on 4 September 1849 and to lieutenant colonel on 4 April 1853. Yorke was severely wounded as he commanded the 1st (Royal) Regiment of Dragoons when the regiment took part in the charge of the Heavy Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava in October 1854 during the Crimean War: his leg was shattered and he was disabled for life. Appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath on 10 July 1855, he was promoted to full colonel on 23 March 1856 and awarded the Order of the Medjidie, 4th Class, for his role in the war, on 2 March 1858. In 1861 he acquired Plas Newydd in Llangollen where he lived in retirement, added the black and white ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Yorke (Conservative Politician)
John Reginald Yorke (25 January 1836 – 2 March 1912) was an English landowner and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1864 and 1886. Background and education A member of the Yorke family headed by the Earl of Hardwicke, he was born in Marylebone, London, the son of Joseph Yorke, of Forthampton Court, Gloucestershire and his wife Frances Antonia, daughter of Reginald Pole-Carew. He was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford. Yorke was a second cousin of Charles Lyttleton, 5th Baron Lyttleton, whose mother dowager Lady Lyttelton referred to Yorke as "tall and magnificent and promising as ever". Political career Yorke was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Tewkesbury in 1864 but in 1868 representation for the seat was reduced to one member. He was elected MP for East Gloucestershire between 1872 and held the seat until it was abolished in 1885. He was then elected M.P. for Tewkesbury again in 1885 until 1886. He was a Justice of the Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Yorke, 7th Earl Of Hardwicke
Captain John Manners Yorke, 7th Earl of Hardwicke DL, JP (30 October 1840 – 13 March 1909), styled The Honourable John Yorke until 1904, was a British naval commander and peer. Yorke was the second son of Admiral Charles Yorke, 4th Earl of Hardwicke, by the Honourable Susan, daughter of Thomas Liddell, 1st Baron Ravensworth. Charles Yorke, 5th Earl of Hardwicke, and Elliot Yorke were his brothers and Albert Yorke, 6th Earl of Hardwicke his nephew. Like his father he served in the Royal Navy and gained the rank of Captain in 1854. From 1870 to 1874 he was Inspector of the Coastguard at Folkestone in Kent. He was also a Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace for Cambridgeshire. In 1904, aged 64, he succeeded in the earldom of Hardwicke on the early death of his nephew, Albert. Lord Hardwicke married Edith Mary, daughter of Alexander Haldane Oswald, in 1869. They had four sons and a daughter. He died in March 1909, aged 68, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Charles. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Yorke (producer)
John Roland Clifford Yorke (born 9 July 1962) is a British television producer and script editor, who was head of Channel 4 Drama 2003-2005, controller of BBC drama production 2006-2012 and MD of Company Pictures (2013-2015). Outside of television production, Yorke authored ''Into the Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them (2014)'', a best-selling screenwriting guide that proposes a five act structure to film and television narrative and draws from Yorke's research and experience. Career Background Yorke attended Newcastle University. He joined the BBC in 1986, working initially in radio as a studio manager and then as a producer on BBC Radio 5. Early career - the 1990s and ''EastEnders'' In 1994, he moved to television, working as a script editor on ''EastEnders'' before becoming the storyline consultant on ''Casualty''. In 1999, after a brief period as producer on ''Sunburn'', he took on the executive producer role on ''EastEnders''. During his time there, he was give ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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