Eliot Constantine Yorke
The Hon. Captain Eliot Constantine Yorke DL MP (13 July 1843 – 21 December 1878), was a British politician and courtier.
Background
[edit]Yorke was the fourth son of Admiral Charles Philip Yorke, 4th Earl of Hardwicke, and the Hon. Susan, daughter of Thomas Liddell, 1st Baron Ravensworth.
Political career
[edit]The Conservative Party adopted Yorke as their candidate at a meeting in Cambridge in October 1873.[1] Yorke was returned to Parliament as one of three representatives for Cambridgeshire in 1874 (succeeding his elder brother Lord Royston), a seat he held until his early death four years later.[2] He was also a captain in the Cambridgeshire Militia, an Equerry to His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh and a Deputy Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire.
Family
[edit]On 11 February 1873, Yorke married Annie, daughter of Sir Anthony de Rothschild, 1st Baronet, and the marriage was solemnised the next day at St. Andrew's Parish Church, Wimpole, Cambridgeshire.[3] They had no children. On 21 December 1878, he died at 17 Curzon Street, Mayfair, London, aged 35.
References
[edit]- ^ "Election Intelligence". Morning Post. 20 October 1873. p. 2.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 13 July 2011. Retrieved 27 May 2009.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ "Marriage of Eliot Yorke". www.trove.nla.gov.au. Retrieved 21 March 2021.