Henry Galgacus Redhead Yorke (9 December 1802 – 12 May 1848)[1] was a British Whig politician.
[5] The younger Henry was baptised in Farnham, Surrey in 1805, with the middle name of an ancient British leader, Galgacus.
They had a daughter and two sons, Louisa, Henry Francis, and George Galgacus Aylmer, the first two born at Syston Park, Lincolnshire.
[11] He is the third MP identified by the History of Parliament’s House of Commons 1832-68 project as of mixed ethnicity.
[5] In May 1848 he bought Prussic acid (cyanide) saying it was to put a dog down, then swallowed it in Regent's Park, London, near Gloucester Gate, with several witnesses.