Simon Yorke (27 July 1771 – 12 December 1834) was a Welsh politician who sat in the

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from 1793 to 1802. Yorke was the son of Philip Yorke of

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and his first wife Elizabeth Cust daughter of

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, and was born on 27 July 1771. He was educated at

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in 1784 and entered

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, on 29 November 1788. He married Margaret Holland, daughter of John Holland of Terydan on 11 March 1807. Yorke was returned as

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for

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on the united Brownlow and Rutland interest in a by election on 7 January 1793. The vacancy had arisen six months earlier, but as he was then under age, his father filled the seat in the meantime. No speech or vote of his is known. He was a lieutenant in the Wrexham yeomanry from 1795 to 1797. In the 1796 general election, he headed the poll at Grantham, but he declined to stand in

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. He was

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in 1807–8. Yorke died on 12 December 1834.

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