Age:73
Er ist verheiratet mit Margaret (Countess Of Hardwick) COCKS (LYGON) (YORKE).
Sie haben geheiratet am 16. Mai 1719, er war 28 Jahre alt.
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«b»Philip Yorke,«/b» 1st Earl of Hardwicke PC (1 December 1690 6 March 1764) was an English lawyer and politician who served as Lord Chancellor. He was a close confidante of the Duke of Newcastle Prime Minister between 1754 and 1756 and 1757 until 1762.
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* 1 Background
* 2 Career
o 2.1 Newcastle government
* 3 Influence
* 4 Cases and legislation
* 5 See also
* 6 References
[edit]Background
A son of Philip Yorke, a barrister, he was born at Dover. Through his mother, Elizabeth, daughter and co-heiress of Richard Gibbon of Rolvenden, Kent, he was connected with the family of Gibbon the historian. At the age of fourteen, after a not very thorough education at a private school at Bethnal Green, where, however, he showed exceptional promise, he entered an attorneys office in London. Here he gave some attention to literature and the classics as well as to law; but in the latter he made such progress that his employer, Salkeld, impressed by Yorke's powers, entered him at the Middle Temple in November 1708; and soon afterwards recommended him to Lord Chief Justice Parker (afterwards earl of Macclesfield) as law tutor to his sons.
In 1715 he was called to the bar, where his progress was, says Lord Campbell, more rapid than that of any other debutant in the annals of our profession, his advancement being greatly furthered by the patronage of Macclesfield, who became lord chancellor in 1718, when Yorke transferred his practice from the king's bench to the court of chancery, though he continued to go on the western circuit. In the following year he established his reputation as an equity lawyer in a case in which Robert Walpole's family was interested, by an argument displaying profound learning and research concerning the jurisdiction of the chancellor, on lines which he afterwards more fully developed in a celebrated letter to Lord Kames on the distinction between law and equity. Through Macclesfield's influence with the Duke of Newcastle Yorke entered parliament in 1719 as member for Lewes, and was appointed solicitor-general, with a knighthood, in 1720, although he was then a barrister of only four years standing.
Although in his youth he contributed to The Spectator (1711) over the signature Philip Homebred, he seems early to have abandoned all care for literature, and he has been reproached by Lord Campbell and others with his neglect of art and letters. On 16 May 1719 he married Margaret, daughter of Charles Cocks (by his wife Mary, sister of Lord Chancellor Somers), and widow of John Lygon, by whom he had five sons and two daughters:
* Philip Yorke, Viscount Royston (1720 1796), who succeeded him
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