Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Horatio Arthur Yorke (3 June 1848 - 10 December 1930) C.B.
He was born on 3 June 1848 near New Wimpole in Cambridgeshire, the fourth son of the Ven the Hon Henry Reginald Yorke (1803-1871) and Flora Elizabeth Campbell (1813-1852).
[1] On 26 July 1893 he married Rebecca Caroline Garstin (d.1943), daughter of the Revd.
Anthony Gartin, Rector of St Peter's Church, Redmile, Leicestershire.
Following the death of Francis Marindin as Chief Inspecting Officer of Railways in 1899, he succeeded him on a salary of £1,000 (equivalent to £136,700 in 2023)[4] per annum.