Albert Edward Philip Henry Yorke, 6th Earl of Hardwicke, DL (14 March 1867 – 29 November 1904), styled Viscount Royston between 1873 and 1897, was a British diplomat and Conservative politician.

[1] Hardwicke was born in 1867 at the British Embassy in Paris,[2] the only son of Viscount Royston (who succeeded as Earl of Hardwicke in 1873), and Lady Sophia Georgiana Robertina, daughter of Henry Wellesley, 1st Earl Cowley.

He entered the House of Lords on the death of his father in 1897 and made his maiden speech in February 1898.

[4] Apart from his career in national politics he was a member of the London County Council between 1897 and 1901 and a deputy lieutenant of Cambridgeshire.

[3] Lord Hardwicke died suddenly of syncope in 1904 at his home, 8 York Terrace, in Regent's Park.