John Reginald Yorke (25 January 1836 – 2 March 1912) was an English landowner and
Conservative
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politician who sat in the
House of Commons
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between 1864 and 1886.
Background and education
A member of the Yorke family headed by the
Earl of Hardwicke
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, he was born in
Marylebone
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,
London
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, the son of
Joseph Yorke, of
Forthampton Court,
Gloucestershire
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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
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(MP) for
Tewkesbury
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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 Peace for Gloucestershire and Worcestershire, and in 1892 he was
High Sheriff of Gloucestershire
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. He was also a
Deputy Lieutenant of Worcestershire and captain in the Tewkesbury Rifle Volunteers. He was also a Fellow of the
Geological Society. Yorke died at the age of 76.
Family
Yorke married Augusta Emmiline Monteath Douglas at St Georges Hanover Square on 4 March 1862. They had a son but Augusta died on 19 February 1863. He married, secondly, to Sophia Matilda de
Tuyll
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de Serooskerken, daughter of Baron Vincent de
Tuyll
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de Serooskerken, on 11 January 1868 and they had four children. His son
Vincent Wodehouse Yorke was the father of Henry Vincent Yorke, better known as the novelist
Henry Green
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.
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/ref> Another son, Ralph Maximilian Yorke, reached the rank of brigadier-general during the First World War
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.
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1836 births
1912 deaths
People educated at Eton College
Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
UK MPs 1859–1865
UK MPs 1865–1868
UK MPs 1868–1874
UK MPs 1874–1880
UK MPs 1880–1885
UK MPs 1885–1886
Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford
John
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High Sheriffs of Gloucestershire
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English landowners
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