Eliot Yorke

For his nephew, see Eliot Yorke.

The Hon. Eliot Douglas Thomas Yorke (20 April 1805 – 3 May 1885), was a British Conservative Party politician.

Background

Yorke was the third son of Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir Joseph Sydney Yorke, second son of Charles Yorke, second son of Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke. His mother was Elizabeth Weake Rattray, daughter of James Rattray. Admiral Charles Yorke, 4th Earl of Hardwicke, was his elder brother. After his elder brother succeeded in the earldom in 1834, Yorke was granted the style of a younger son of an earl, and thus styled the Honourable Eliot Yorke.

Political career

Yorke was elected as one of three representatives for Cambridgeshire in the 1835 general election, a seat he held until 1865.

Personal life

On 31 January 1833, Yorke married Emily Anne Millicent, daughter of Emilius Henry Delmé Radcliffe, in St. Mary, Hitchin, Hertfordshire. They had no children. He died on 3 May 1885, at 15 Park Street, Westminster, London, aged 80. Emily Yorke died on 1 January 1894, in Westminster, London.

References

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Eliot Yorke

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Richard Greaves Townley Charles Yorke John Walbanke Childers	Member of Parliament for Cambridgeshire 1835–1865 With: Richard Greaves Townley 1835–1841, 1847–1852 Richard Jefferson Eaton 1835–1847 John Peter Allix 1841–1847 Lord George Manners 1847–1857, 1863–1865 Edward Ball 1852–1863 Henry John Adeane 1857–1865	Succeeded by Lord George Manners Viscount Royston Richard Young