He was the son of Richard York and Lady Mary Anne Lascelles.
[4] York served as a Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant of the North Riding of Yorkshire.
[1] On 25 November 1837, York married Penelope Beatrix Sykes (1810–1873) in Roos, Yorkshire.
Christopher Sykes, the Rector of Roos, and Lucy Dorothea Langford.
[1] Through his daughter Lucy, he was a grandfather of Sir Edward Clitherow Brooksbank, 1st Baronet, a Justice of the Peace and a deputy Lieutenant for the West Riding of Yorkshire.