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The family of Yorke first came into prominence with the great Chancellor Philip Yorke, first Earl of Hardwicke. This remarkable man, who was the son of an attorney at Dover, descended, it is claimed, from the Yorkes of Hannington in North Wiltshire, a family of some consequence in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, was born in that town in the year 1690, and rose from a comparatively humble station to the commanding position he held so long in English public life. My object in this chapter is to recall some of the incidents of his career and of those of his immediate successors and descendants | Charles Philip Yorke Fourth Earl of Hardwicke Vice-Admiral . A Memoir 1 Charles Philip Yorke Fourth Earl of Hardwicke Vice-Admiral . A Memoir The Project Gutenberg EBook of Charles Philip Yorke Fourth Earl of Hardwicke Vice-Admiral . by Lady Biddulph of Ledbury Copyright laws are changing all over the world. Be sure to check the copyright laws for your country before downloading or redistributing this or any other Project Gutenberg eBook. This header should be the first thing seen when viewing this Project Gutenberg file. Please do not remove it. Do not change or edit the header without written permission. Please read the legal small print and other information about the eBook and Project Gutenberg at the bottom of this file. Included is important information about your specific rights and restrictions in how the file may be used. You can also find out about how to make a donation to Project Gutenberg and how to get involved. Welcome To The World of Free Plain Vanilla Electronic Texts eBooks Readable By Both Humans and By Computers Since 1971 These eBooks Were Prepared By Thousands of Volunteers Title Charles Philip Yorke Fourth Earl of Hardwicke Vice-Admiral . A Memoir Author Lady Biddulph of Ledbury Release Date December 2004 EBook 7192 Yes we are more than one year ahead of schedule This file was first posted on March 26 2003 Edition 10 Language English Character set encoding ISO-Latin-1 START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHARLES P. YORKE IV Produced by Tonya Allen Tiffany Vergon Charles Aldarondo Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team CHARLES PHILIP YORKE FOURTH EARL OF HARDWICKE VICE-ADMIRAL . A MEMOIR BY HIS DAUGHTER Charles Philip Yorke Fourth Earl of Hardwicke Vice-Admiral . A Memoir THE LADY BIDDULPH OF LEDBURY 2 WITH PORTRAITS DEDICATED TO HIS GRANDCHILDREN PREFACE It is with great diffidence that I lay this memoir before the public it is my first experience in such work but my reasons for so doing appear to me .