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Philip Yorke

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Data Last Updated: 27 August 2024
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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Born: 9 December 1720

Died: 16 May 1790

Peerages

Viscount Royston - 2 April 1754

2nd Earl of Hardwicke - 6 March 1764

Member of Privy Council - 17 December 1760

son of Philip Yorke

husband of Lady Jemima Campbell

Education

Dr Newcome's School, Hackney

Corpus Christi, Cambridge

Appointments

Elections fought

16 July 1747		Cambridgeshire	Whig	Unopposed
2 May 1754		Cambridgeshire	Whig	Unopposed
8 April 1761		Cambridgeshire	Whig	Unopposed
6 March 1764 Succession of Viscount Royston to the Peerage - 2nd Earl of Hardwicke.