Background
YERBURGH, Robert Armstrong was born on January 17, 1853. 3rd son of Reverend Richard Yerburgh, Vicar of Sleaford, Lincolnshire, and Susan, daughter of John Higgin, Greenfield, Lancaster.
YERBURGH, Robert Armstrong was born on January 17, 1853. 3rd son of Reverend Richard Yerburgh, Vicar of Sleaford, Lincolnshire, and Susan, daughter of John Higgin, Greenfield, Lancaster.
Rossall; Harrow; University College Oxford.
Barrister Middle Temple, 1880. Private Secretary to Mr. AkersDouglas when Patronage Secretary, 1885-1886.
Assistant Private Secretary to Mr. W. H. Smith, First Lord of Treasury, 1887. President Agricultural Organisation Society.
President Urban Co-operative Banks Association. Honourable Secretary Recreation Evening Schools Association. Vice-Chairman National Home Reading Union. Member of Parliament (Conservative) Chester, 1886-1906, and since 1910; D.L.; Justice of the Peace Lancashire; Justice of the Peace Kirkcudbrightshire; President Royal Navy League since 1900; late Major 2nd Volunteer Battalion Cheshire Regiment.
Conservative
Clubs: Travellers’, Carlton, Wellington.
Spouse 1888, Elma Amy, o. c. of Daniel Thwaites, Woodfold Park, Blackburn, formerly M.P.