Hon. Eliot Thomas Yorke MP DL was a British politician and barrister.

Background

Yorke was the third son of Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir Joseph Sydney Yorke, second son of Charles Yorke, second son of

Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, (1 December 16906 March 1764) was an English lawyer and politician who served as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain. He was a close confidant of the Duke of Newcastle, Prime Minister between 1754 and 1 ...

. His mother was Elizabeth Weake Rattray, daughter of James Rattray. Admiral

Charles Yorke, 4th Earl of Hardwicke Admiral Charles Philip Yorke, 4th Earl of Hardwicke, PC (2 April 1799 – 17 September 1873) was a British naval commander and Conservative politician. Background Born at Sydney Lodge, in Hamble le Rice, Hardwicke was the eldest son of Admira ...

, was his elder brother. He was educated at Harrow, whence he proceeded to St. John's College,

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, where be took the degree of M.A. in 1827. Mr. Yorke was called to the Bar by the Honourable Society of

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in 1832. He was granted the precedence of an earl's son by Royal warrant in 1836. Yorke was a magistrate and deputy-lieutenant (DL) for Cambridgeshire, and for many years chairman of quarter sessions for that county. He was a director of the

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Political career

The

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nominated Yorke, a barrister as one of their candidates on 12 January 1835 Yorke was elected as one of three representatives for

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in the 1835 general election, a seat he held until 1865.

Personal life

On 31 January 1833, Yorke married Emily Anne Millicent, daughter of Emilius Henry Delmé Radcliffe, in St. Mary, Hitchin, Hertfordshire. They had no children. He died on 3 May 1885, at 15 Park Street, Westminster, London, aged 80. Emily Yorke died on 1 January 1894, in Westminster, London.

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