Eliot Constantine Yorke
The Hon. Captain Eliot Constantine Yorke DL MP (13 July 1843 – 21 December 1878), was a British politician and courtier.
Background[]
Yorke was the fourth son of Admiral Charles Philip Yorke, 4th Earl of Hardwicke, and the Hon. Susan, daughter of Thomas Liddell, 1st Baron Ravensworth.[1]
Political career[]
The Conservative Party adopted Yorke as their candidate at a meeting in Cambridge in October 1873.[2] Yorke was returned to Parliament as one of three representatives for Cambridgeshire in 1874 (succeeding his elder brother Lord Royston), a seat he held until his early death four years later.[3] He was also a Captain in the Cambridgeshire Militia, an Equerry to His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh and a Deputy Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire.[1]
Family[]
On 11 February 1873, Yorke married Annie, daughter of Sir Anthony de Rothschild, 1st Baronet, and the marriage was solemnised the next day at St. Andrew's Parish Church, Wimpole, Cambridgeshire.[4] They had no children. On 21 December 1878, he died at 17 Curzon Street, Mayfair, London, aged 35. He was buried at St Andrew the Apostle, Hamble-le-Rice,[5] His wife survived him by almost 50 years and died on 21 November 1926, at "Hamble Clife," Southampton, Hampshire.[1]
References[]
- ^ a b c "Person Page 19549". thePeerage.com. Retrieved 9 February 2012.
- ^ "Election Inteligence". Morning Post. 20 October 1873. p. 2.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 13 July 2011. Retrieved 27 May 2009.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ "Marriage of Eliot Yorke". www.trove.nla.gov.au. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
- ^ "Eliot Constantine Yorke". www.findagrave.com. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
External links[]
- 1843 births
- 1878 deaths
- Younger sons of earls
- Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
- UK MPs 1874–1880
- Yorke family