CHARLES YORKE (1722-1770)
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of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
CHARLES YORKE (1722-1770)
, English lord chancellor, second son of See also: - PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
, 1st earl of Hardwicke, was born in London on the 3oth of December 1722, and was educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
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His literary abilities were shown at an early age by his collaboration with his brother Philip in the Athenian Letters
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In 1745 he published an able treatise on the law of forfeiture for high treason, in defence of his father's treatment of the Scottish Jacobite peers; and in the following year he was called to the bar
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His father being at this See also: - TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
lord chancellor, Yorke obtained a sinecure appointment in the Court of Chancery in 1747, and entered parliament as member for Reigate, a seat which he afterwards exchanged for that for the university of Cambridge
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He quickly made his mark in the House of Commons, one of his earliest speeches being in favour of his father's reform of the marriage law
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