Education
Street John"s College.
Street John"s College.
He notably served as Home Secretary from 1803 to 1804. He made himself exceedingly unpopular in 1810 by bringing about the exclusion of strangers, including reporters for the press, from the House of Commons under the standing order, which led to the imprisonment of Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Baronet in the Tower and to riots in London. In the same year, Yorke joined Spencer Perceval"s government as First Lord of the Admiralty.
He retired from public life in 1818.
Yorke was the second son of the Honorary Charles Yorke and grandson of Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke.
His mother was Agneta, daughter of Henry Johnstone. Yorke married Harriott, daughter of Charles Manningham, in 1790.
They had no children.
He died in March 1834, one day after his 70th birthday. He had a natural son, Charles Eurwicke Douglas. In 1802, Matthew Flinders named Yorke Peninsula in South Australia after Yorke.
Royal Society; 1st United Kingdom Parliament. 2nd United Kingdom Parliament. 3rd United Kingdom Parliament.
4th United Kingdom Parliament.
5th United Kingdom Parliament. 17th Parliament of Great Britain.
18th Parliament of Great Britain]
He sat as a Member of Parliament for Cambridgeshire from 1790 to 1810 and afterwards for Liskeard from 1812 to 1818.