Philip Yorke, Viscount Royston (7 May 1784 – 7 April 1808), was a British traveller and politician. Yorke was the eldest son of

Philip Yorke, 3rd Earl of Hardwicke Philip Yorke, 3rd Earl of Hardwicke (31 May 1757 – 18 November 1834), known as Philip Yorke until 1790, was a British politician. Background and education Born in Cambridge, England, he was the eldest son of Charles Yorke, Lord Chancello ...

and Lady

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, daughter of James Lindsay, 5th Earl of Balcarres. He was the grandson of Charles Yorke and the nephew of

Charles Philip Yorke Charles Philip Yorke (12 March 1764 – 13 March 1834) was a British politician. He notably served as Home Secretary from 1803 to 1804. Political career He sat as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Cambridgeshire from 1790 to 1810. He was commi ...

and Sir Joseph Sydney Yorke.thepeerage.com Philip Yorke, Viscount Royston
/ref> He was educated at

Harrow School Harrow School () is a Public school (United Kingdom), public school (English boarding school for boys) in Harrow on the Hill, Greater London, England. The school was founded in 1572 by John Lyon (school founder), John Lyon, a local landowner an ...

and

St John's College, Cambridge St John's College, formally the College of St John the Evangelist in the University of Cambridge, is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge, founded by the House of Tudor, Tudor matriarch L ...

, where he graduated as

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in 1803. At Cambridge he wrote a translation of

Lycophron Lycophron ( ; ; born about 330–325 BC) was a Hellenistic Greek tragic poet, grammarian, and commentator on comedy, to whom the poem ''Alexandra'' is attributed (perhaps falsely). Life and miscellaneous works He was born at Chalcis in Euboea, a ...

's poem about Cassandra that was praised highly by

Richard Porson Richard Porson (25 December 1759 – 25 September 1808) was an English classical scholar. He was the discoverer of Porson's Law. The Greek typeface '' Porson'' was based on his handwriting. Early life Richard Porson was born at East Ruston, ne ...

. He was commissioned as a

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in the

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(commanded by his father and uncle) on 6 March 1803 when the militia were being embodied on the breakdown of the

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. In 1806 he embarked on a tour of the Russian Empire which he described in detail in letters to his father that were published in
The remains of the late Lord Viscount Royston: With a memoir of his life by the Rev. Henry Pepys
' (London: J. Murray, 1838); they were used by

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for her story "Lord Royston's Tour." He was returned to parliament for

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in 1806, a seat he held until April 1808, when he was lost in a storm off Memel in a ship called the ''Agatha of

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''. Yorke died aged only 23, predeceasing his father. He never married. His younger brother Charles also died before his father and their cousin Charles Yorke eventually succeeded in the earldom. His translation of Lycophron was published posthumously.''Hesiod. Bion and Moschus. Sappho and Musaeus. Lycophron'', London: A. J. Valpy, 1832, pp
195
ff.

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Philip Philip, also Phillip, is a male name derived from the Macedonian Old Koine language, Greek (''Philippos'', lit. "horse-loving" or "fond of horses"), from a compound of (''philos'', "dear", "loved", "loving") and (''hippos'', "horse"). Prominen ...

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