Charles Philip Yorke

The Right Honourable
Charles Philip Yorke
FSA FRS
The Right Honourable Charles Philip Yorke FSA FRS
	Portrait by George Romney
Home Secretary
	In office; 17 August 1803 – 12 May 1804
Monarch	George III
Prime Minister	Henry Addington
Preceded by	Lord Pelham
Succeeded by	The Lord Hawkesbury
Member of Parliament; for Cambridgeshire
	In office; 1790–1810
Preceded by	Philip Yorke
Succeeded by	Lord Francis Osborne
Personal details
Born	12 March 1764
Died	13 March 1834 (aged 70)
Nationality	British
Political party	Tory
Spouse	Harriott Manningham

Charles Philip Yorke PC FRS FSA (12 March 1764 – 13 March 1834) was a British politician. He notably served as Home Secretary from 1803 to 1804.

Political career

He sat as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Cambridgeshire from 1790 to 1810. He was commissioned as an officer in the Cambridgeshire Militia in 1793.^[1] He was promoted to major in 1795, a fellow officer was Captain George Manby^[2] By 1806 he was their colonel.^[3] He was MP for Liskeard from 1812 to 1818.

In 1801 he was appointed Secretary at War in Henry Addington's ministry, transferring to the Home Office in 1803, where he was a strong opponent of concession to the Roman Catholics. He made himself exceedingly unpopular in 1810 by bringing about the exclusion of strangers, including reporters for the press, from the House of Commons under the standing order, which led to the imprisonment of Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Baronet in the Tower and to riots in London. In the same year, Yorke joined Spencer Perceval's government as First Lord of the Admiralty. He retired from public life in 1818.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1801.

Family

Yorke was the second son of the Hon. Charles Yorke and grandson of Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke. His mother was Agneta, daughter of Henry Johnstone. His brother was Admiral Sir Joseph Sidney Yorke (1768–1831), whose son succeeded to the earldom of Hardwicke.

Yorke married Harriott, eldest daughter of Charles Manningham, Esq. of Thorpe, Surrey in July 1790.^[4] They had no children. He died in March 1834, one day after his 70th birthday.

He had a natural son, Charles Eurwicke Douglas.^[5]

Legacy

In 1802, Matthew Flinders named Yorke Peninsula in South Australia after Yorke.^[6]

References

^ "Cambridge". Stamford Mercury. 4 January 1793. p. 3.
^ "Cambridgeshire Militia". Northampton Mercury. 7 February 1795. p. 3.
^ "HomeGuard" (PDF). www.napoleon-series. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
^ "Married". Stamford Mercury. 9 July 1790.
^ Walford, E. (1860). The county families of the United Kingdom. Рипол Классик. p. 186. Retrieved 5 June 2014.
^ Flinders, Matthew (1966) [1814]. A Voyage to Terra Australis : undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802, and 1803 in His Majesty's ship the Investigator, and subsequently in the armed vessel Porpoise and Cumberland Schooner; with an account of the shipwreck of the Porpoise, arrival of the Cumberland at Mauritius, and imprisonment of the commander during six years and a half in that island (Facsimile ed.). Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia. p. 257. Retrieved 5 January 2014.

Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

External links

"Yorke, Charles Philip (1764–1834)" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by Philip Yorke James Whorwood Adeane	Member of Parliament for Cambridgeshire 1790–1800 With: James Whorwood Adeane	Succeeded by (Parliament of Great Britain abolished)
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by (self in Parliament of Great Britain)	Member of Parliament for Cambridgeshire 1801–1810 With: James Whorwood Adeane, to 1802 Sir Henry Peyton, Bt 1802 Lord Charles Manners 1802–1810	Succeeded by Lord Charles Manners Lord Francis Osborne
Preceded by Sir Joseph Sidney Yorke Matthew Montagu	Member of Parliament for St Germans 1810–1812 With: Matthew Montagu	Succeeded by William Henry Pringle Henry Goulburn
Preceded by William Eliot Viscount Hamilton	Member of Parliament for Liskeard 1812–1818 With: William Eliot	Succeeded by William Eliot Sir William Pringle
Political offices
Preceded by Lord Pelham	Home Secretary 1803–1804	Succeeded by Lord Hawkesbury
Preceded by The Lord Mulgrave	First Lord of the Admiralty 1810–1812	Succeeded by The Viscount Melville
Preceded by Hon. William Eden	Teller of the Exchequer 1813–1834	Succeeded by Charles William Manningham

[1] "Cambridge". Stamford Mercury. 4 January 1793. p. 3.

[2] "Cambridgeshire Militia". Northampton Mercury. 7 February 1795. p. 3.

[3] "HomeGuard" (PDF). www.napoleon-series. Retrieved 17 February 2021.

[4] "Married". Stamford Mercury. 9 July 1790.

[5] Walford, E. (1860). The county families of the United Kingdom. Рипол Классик. p. 186. Retrieved 5 June 2014.

[6] Flinders, Matthew (1966) [1814]. A Voyage to Terra Australis : undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802, and 1803 in His Majesty's ship the Investigator, and subsequently in the armed vessel Porpoise and Cumberland Schooner; with an account of the shipwreck of the Porpoise, arrival of the Cumberland at Mauritius, and imprisonment of the commander during six years and a half in that island (Facsimile ed.). Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia. p. 257. Retrieved 5 January 2014.

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