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

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