The Hon. Eliot Douglas Thomas Yorke (20 April 1805 – 3 May 1885), was a British Conservative Party

Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...

 politician.

Background

Yorke was the third son of Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir Joseph Sydney Yorke

Joseph Sydney Yorke

Sir Joseph Sydney Yorke KCB was an officer of the Royal Navy. He served during the American Revolutionary, the French Revolutionary and the Napoleonic Wars, eventually rising to the rank of Admiral.-Family and early life:...

, second son of Charles Yorke

Charles Yorke

Charles Yorke was Lord Chancellor of Great Britain.-Life:The second son of Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, he was born in London, and was educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. His literary abilities were shown at an early age by his collaboration with his brother Philip in the...

, second son of Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke

Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke

Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke PC was an English lawyer and politician who served as Lord Chancellor. He was a close confidant of the Duke of Newcastle, Prime Minister between 1754 and 1756 and 1757 until 1762....

. His mother was Elizabeth Weake Rattray, daughter of James Rattray. Admiral Charles Yorke, 4th Earl of Hardwicke

Charles Yorke, 4th Earl of Hardwicke

Admiral Charles Philip Yorke, 4th Earl of Hardwicke PC , was a British naval commander and Conservative politician.-Background:...

, was his elder brother. After his elder brother succeeded in the earldom in 1834, Yorke was granted the style of a younger son of an earl, and thus styled the Honourable Eliot Yorke.

Political career

Yorke was elected as one of three representatives for Cambridgeshire

Cambridgeshire (UK Parliament constituency)

Cambridgeshire is a former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituency. It was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1885. It was represented by two Knights...

 in the 1835 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1835

The 1835 United Kingdom general election was called when Parliament was dissolved on 29 December 1834. Polling took place between 6 January and 6 February 1835, and the results saw Robert Peel's Conservatives make large gains from their low of the 1832 election, but the Whigs maintained a large...

, a seat he held until 1865.

Personal life

On 31 January 1833, Yorke married Emily Anne Millicent, daughter of Emilius Henry Delmé Radcliffe, in St. Mary, Hitchin, Hertfordshire. They had no children. He died on 3 May 1885, at 15 Park Street, Westminster, London, aged 80. Emily Yorke died on 1 January 1894, in Westminster, London.

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