Philip Yorke, Viscount Royston
Philip Yorke, Viscount Royston (7 May 1784 – 7 April 1808), was a British traveller and politician.
Yorke was the eldest son of Philip Yorke, 3rd Earl of Hardwicke and Lady Elizabeth, daughter of James Lindsay, 5th Earl of Balcarres. He was the grandson of Charles Yorke and the nephew of Charles Philip Yorke and Sir Joseph Sydney Yorke.[1] He was educated at Harrow School and St John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated as Master of Arts in 1803.[2] At Cambridge he wrote a translation of Lycophron's poem about Cassandra that was praised highly by Richard Porson.[3] He was commissioned as a captain in the Cambridgeshire Militia (commanded by his father and uncle) on 6 March 1803 when the militia were being embodied on the breakdown of the Peace of Amiens.[4]
In 1806 he embarked on a tour of the Russian Empire which he described in detail in letters to his father that were published in The remains of the late Lord Viscount Royston: With a memoir of his life by the Rev. Henry Pepys (London: J. Murray, 1838); they were used by Lydia Davis for her story "Lord Royston's Tour."[5]
He was returned to parliament for Reigate in 1806, a seat he held until April 1808,[1][6] when he was lost in a storm off Memel in a ship called the Agatha of Lübeck.
Yorke died aged only 23, predeceasing his father. He never married. His younger brother Charles also died before his father and their cousin Charles Yorke eventually succeeded in the earldom.[1] His translation of Lycophron was published posthumously.[7]
References
- ^ a b c thepeerage.com Philip Yorke, Viscount Royston
- ^ The Complete Peerage, Volume VI. St Catherine's Press. 1926. p. 308.
- ^ The remains of the late Lord Viscount Royston: With a memoir of his life by the Rev. Henry Pepys (London: J. Murray, 1838), p. 9.
- ^ War Office, A List of the Officers of the Militia, the Gentlemen & Yeomanry Cavalry, and Volunteer Infantry of the United Kingdom, 11th Edn, London: War Office, 14 October 1805/Uckfield: Naval and Military Press, 2005, ISBN 978-1-84574-207-2.
- ^ James Yeh, "The Story Becomes About Seeing: An Interview with Lydia Davis," Gigantic #4: Gigantic Everything, 2012.
- ^ leighrayment.com House of Commons: Radcliffe-cum-Farnworth to Rochdale[usurped]
- ^ Hesiod. Bion and Moschus. Sappho and Musaeus. Lycophron, London: A. J. Valpy, 1832, pp. 195 ff.
External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Philip Yorke
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| Alexander Lindsay (1752–1825) | Elizabeth Dalrymple (1759–1816) | Elizabeth Scot Lindsay (1763–1858) | Philip Yorke (1757–1834) | Charles Dalrymple Lindsay (1760–1846) | Catherine Eliza Coussmaker (1760–1852) | Robert Lindsay (1754–1836) | Elizabeth Dick (1764–1835) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maria Margaret Frances Pennington (1783-1850) | James Lindsay (1783–1869) | Philip Yorke (1784–1808) | Mary Catherine Gore (1803–1885) | George Hayward Lindsay (1799–1886) | James Lindsay (1793–1855) | Anne Trotter (1803–1894) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alexander William Crawford Lindsay (1812–1880) | Margaret Lindsay (1824–1909) | James Alexander Lindsay (1815–1874) | Charles Hugh Lindsay (1816–1889) | Emilia Anne Browne (1827–1873) | Henry Gore Lindsay (1830–1914) | Ellen Sarah Morgan (1837–1912) | Robert Stayner Holford (1808–1892) | Mary Ann Lindsay (1829–1901) | Coutts Lindsay (1824–1913) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| James Ludovic Lindsay (1847–1913) | Henry John Brinsley Manners (1852–1925) | Marion Margaret Violet Lindsay (1856–1937) | Henry Edith Arthur Lindsay (1866–1939) | Norah Mary Madeline Bourke (1873–1948) | George Lindsay Holford (1860–1926) | Evelyn Holford (1856–1943) | Robert Henry Benson (1850–1929) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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