About Henry Yorke
Lived 1803 – 1871 (aged 67). Henry Yorke was a visual artist.
Henry Reginald Yorke (30 October 180326 September 1871) was Archdeacon of Huntington from 22 March 1856 to 16 March 1870.
The son of Joseph Sydney Yorke, he was born in Bursledon, educated at Harrow School and St John's College, Cambridge, and ordained in 1827. He held incumbencies at Aspenden and Wimpole; was a JP for Cambridgeshire; and a Canon at Ely Cathedral from 1859 until his death; he was granted, with his brother's succession to the peerage (in 1834), the style and precedence of the younger son of an earl.
His brother (Charles Yorke, 4th Earl of Hardwicke) was a British naval commander and Conservative politician; and his brother-in-law — Robert Cooper Lee Bevan — an eminent banker. His son Horatio Arthur Yorke was Chief Inspector for Railways from 1900 to 1913.
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(1803-1871)
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Henry Yorke was born on 30 October 1803.
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Henry Yorke died on 26 September 1871.
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Henry Yorke was a visual artist.
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