The Right Honourable

The Earl of Hardwicke

8th Earl of Hardwicke
Tenure13 March 1909 – 1 February 1936
PredecessorJohn Yorke, 7th Earl of Hardwicke
SuccessorPhilip Yorke, 9th Earl of Hardwicke
BornCharles Alexander Yorke
(1869-11-11)11 November 1869
London, England
Died1 February 1936(1936-02-01) (aged 66)
Bournemouth, Dorset, England
Spouse(s)
Ellen Russell
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(m. 1911; div. 1926)​

Mary Radley Twist
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(m. 1930)​
IssueLady Elizabeth Yorke
FatherJohn Yorke, 7th Earl of Hardwicke
MotherEdith Mary Oswald

Charles Alexander Yorke, 8th Earl of Hardwicke (11 November 1869 – 1 February 1936) was a British peer.[1]

Yorke was born in 1869. He succeeded as the 8th Earl of Hardwicke in 1909.[2][3] He had worked as a miner in Australia and America and was a pioneer balloonist.[2][3] During the First World War he was a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve and also a King's Foreign Service Messenger.[2][3]

Lord Hardwicke married Ellen Russell (known as Nellie Russell), a New Zealander, in April 1911.[4][5] They were divorced in 1926 on the grounds of his misconduct and infidelity.[6][7][8] They had one daughter, Lady Elizabeth Mary Yorke, and were the maternal grandparents of Anne Glenconner.[9]

Ellen, Countess of Hardwicke, was made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in 1918 for services to the New Zealand War Contingent Association, and for helping to establish the New Zealand General Hospital in Walton-on-Thames to treat wounded New Zealand soldiers.[10][9][11] She died in 1968.

Lord Hardwicke married his second wife, Mary Radley Twist, in 1930.[2] She died in 1938.[12]

Lord Hardwicke died in February 1936 in Bournemouth.[2] He was succeeded by his nephew Philip G. Yorke.[2][3]

See also

References

  1. ^ Hesilrige 1921, p. 445.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "Death of a Peer who Worked as a Miner". The Evening Telegraph. 3 February 1936 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. ^ a b c d "Lord Hardwicke". Gloucestershire Echo. 3 February 1936 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  4. ^ "A Society Wedding". Auckland Star. 28 April 1911. p. 5. Archived from the original on 23 January 2023. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
  5. ^ "Earl of Hardwicke and Miss Nellie Russell". Leeds Mercury. 28 April 1911. p. 4 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  6. ^ "Lady Hardwicke asks for Divorce". Auckland Star. 14 October 1926. p. 8. Archived from the original on 23 January 2023. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
  7. ^ "Decree Nisi Granted". New Zealand Herald. 24 November 1926. p. 11. Archived from the original on 23 January 2023. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
  8. ^ "Earl of Hardwicke Decree Nisi Granted to the Countess". Lancashire Evening Post. 22 November 1926. p. 2 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  9. ^ a b Glenconner, Anne (2019). Lady in Waiting. London: Hodder & Stoughton. p. 42. ISBN 1-5293-5907-4. OCLC 1090914753.
  10. ^ "Remembering the New Zealanders in Walton-on-Thames" (PDF). NZHistory. Archived (PDF) from the original on 24 September 2021. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
  11. ^ "The London Gazette". The Gazette. 4 October 1918. p. 11772. Archived from the original on 24 September 2021. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
  12. ^ "The Dowager Countess of Hardwicke". The Times. 23 July 1938. p. 14.

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Peerage of Great Britain Preceded byJohn Yorke Earl of Hardwicke 1909–1936 Succeeded byPhilip Grantham Yorke
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