CHARLES YORKE (1722-1770)
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Originally appearing in Volume
V28,
Page 930
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
See also:CHARLES See also:YORKE (1722-1770)
, See also:English See also:lord See also: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)
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 (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
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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