Background
Yorke was the second son of Admiral Charles Yorke, 4th Earl of Hardwicke, by the Honourable Susan, daughter of Thomas Liddell, 1st Baron Ravensworth.
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Yorke was the second son of Admiral Charles Yorke, 4th Earl of Hardwicke, by the Honourable Susan, daughter of Thomas Liddell, 1st Baron Ravensworth.
Like his father he served in the Royal Navy and gained the rank of Captain in 1854. From 1870 to 1874 he was Inspector of the Coastguard at Folkestone in Kent. He was also a Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace for Cambridgeshire.
Lord Hardwicke married Edith Mary, daughter of Alexander Haldane Oswald, in 1869.
The Countess of Hardwicke died in July 1930.