Philip Yorke, Viscount Royston (1784–1808), English politician, eldest son of Philip Yorke, 3rd Earl of Hardwicke
William Coxe, Memoirs of Sir R. Walpole (4 vols., London, 1816);
With his brother, Charles Yorke, he was one of the chief contributors to Athenian Letters; or the Epistolary Correspondence of an agent of the King of Persia residing at Athens during the Peloponnesian War (4 vols., London, 1741), a work that for many years had a considerable vogue and went through several editions.
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His temper nearly cost him his career, while he managed to make himself so unpopular with his constituents while MP for Rochester that Philip Stephens, the Secretary to the Admiralty, wrote to Lord Hardwicke saying that the voters ‘had conceived an utter aversion to our Admiral Sir Thomas Pye, and I find they would have taken anybody who offered himself in preference to him’.
In 1741 Philip and his brother, Charles Yorke, brought out the first volume of the Athenian Letters, to which Wray contributed under the signature ‘W.’ In 1745 Philip Yorke appointed Wray his deputy teller of the exchequer, an office which he continued to hold until 1782.
Born on 13 October 1799, he was eldest son of Philip Yorke, prebendary of Ely (b. 24 February 1770, died 27 July 1835), and his wife, Anna Maria, daughter of Charles Cocks, 1st Baron Somers.