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Robert Armstrong Yerburgh, (17 January 1853 – 18 December 1916), was a British barrister and

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politician.

Early life

Yerburgh was the son of the Reverend Richard Yerburgh and Susan Higgin and had ten full brothers and sisters: Richard Eustre, Susan Edith, John Eardley,

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, Mary Florence, Edmond Rochfort, Rachel, Harry Beauchamp, Lucy Isabel, and Charlotte Elizabeth. By his father's second marriage in 1863 he had two half-sisters, Annie Constance and Mabel Stanley.''

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'', volume 1 (1999), p. 66 He was educated at

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, Harrow School, and

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Career

After Oxford, Yerburgh was called to the bar. In 1886 he was elected to the

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for Chester, standing for the Unionists, a seat he lost in 1906, but he was elected again in 1910. He was intended for a peerage in 1916 but died in December of that year, before the patent had been completed, aged 63. He was also a Deputy Lieutenant for

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and a Justice of the Peace for

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Private life

In 1888 Yerburgh married Elma Amy, a daughter of Daniel Thwaites, and the couple lived at Billinge Scar, near Blackburn, before moving to Woodfold Hall. They had two sons. Their eldest son,

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, also became a Conservative politician and was elevated to the peerage as Baron Alvingham in 1929. Elma Amy Yerburgh died in 1946.

Notes

References

*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990. * *

External links

Yerburgh family history (1912)
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Yerburgh, Robert 1853 births 1916 deaths People educated at Rossall School Alumni of University College, Oxford Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1886–1892 UK MPs 1892–1895 UK MPs 1895–1900 UK MPs 1900–1906 UK MPs 1910 UK MPs 1910–1918 Deputy Lieutenants of Lancashire Scottish justices of the peace People educated at Harrow School