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CHARLES YORKE (1722-1770)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 930 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHARLES See also:YORKE (1722-1770)  , See also:English See also:lord See also:chancellor, second son of See also:Philip See also:Yorke, 1st See also:earl of See also:Hardwicke, was See also:born in See also:London on the 3oth of See also:December 1722, and was educated at Corpus Christi See also:College, See also:Cambridge . His See also:literary abilities were shown at an See also:early See also:age by his collaboration with his See also:brother Philip in the Athenian Letters . In 1745 he published an able See also:treatise on the See also:law of See also:forfeiture for high See also:treason, in See also:defence of his See also:father's treatment of the Scottish Jacobite peers; and in the following See also:year he was called to the See also:bar . His father being at this See also:time lord chancellor, Yorke obtained a See also:sinecure See also:appointment in the See also:Court of See also:Chancery in 1747, and entered See also:parliament as member for See also:Reigate, a seat which he afterwards exchanged for that for the university of Cambridge . He quickly made his See also:mark in the See also:House of See also:Commons, one of his earliest speeches being in favour of his father's reform of the See also:marriage law .

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