Background
Philip James Yorke was born on the 13th of October 1799. He was the eldest son of Philip Yorke, prebendary of Ely and Anna Maria, daughter of Charles Cocks, 1st Baron Somers.
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Philip James Yorke was born on the 13th of October 1799. He was the eldest son of Philip Yorke, prebendary of Ely and Anna Maria, daughter of Charles Cocks, 1st Baron Somers.
One of his paternal great grandfathers was Earl of Hardwicke. At the age of nine he went to study under Doctor Pearson in Surrey, and at twelve years old entered Harrow School in 1810. At the age of sixteen he obtained a commission in the Scots Fusilier Guards and left Harrow.
He remained in this regiment until 1852 and became a Lieutenant-Colonel.
During the Crimean war he was appointed Colonel of the Herefordshire militia, a post which he held for three years. On the 27th of April 1843 Yorke married Emily Clifford, the youngest daughter of William Morgan Clifford of Perrystone, Herefordshire.
Yorke died on the 14th of December 1874.
Royal Society.