[2] The son of Joseph Sydney Yorke,[3] he was born in Bursledon, educated at Harrow School and St John's College, Cambridge,[4] and ordained in 1827.
He held incumbencies at Aspenden and Wimpole; was a JP for Cambridgeshire; and a Canon at Ely Cathedral from 1859 until his death; he was granted, with his brother's succession to the peerage (in 1834), the style and precedence of the younger son of an earl.
[5] His brother (Charles Yorke, 4th Earl of Hardwicke) was a British naval commander and Conservative politician;[6] and his brother-in-law — Robert Cooper Lee Bevan — an eminent banker.
[7] His son Horatio Arthur Yorke was Chief Inspector for Railways from 1900 to 1913.
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