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unusual facts about Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke



Philip Yorke

Philip Yorke, Viscount Royston (1784–1808), English politician, eldest son of Philip Yorke, 3rd Earl of Hardwicke

Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke

William Coxe, Memoirs of Sir R. Walpole (4 vols., London, 1816);

Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke

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.

Thomas Pye

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’.


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