General John Yorke CB (1814–1890) was a British Army officer.

Born the son of Simon Yorke II of Erddig (1771–1834) and Margaret Holland (1778–1848),[1] Yorke was commissioned as a cornet in the 1st (Royal) Regiment of Dragoons on 21 December 1832.

[6] Yorke was severely wounded as he commanded the 1st (Royal) Regiment of Dragoons when the regiment took part in the charge of the Heavy Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava in October 1854 during the Crimean War: his leg was shattered and he was disabled for life.

[7] Appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath on 10 July 1855,[8] he was promoted to full colonel on 23 March 1856[9] and awarded the Order of the Medjidie, 4th Class, for his role in the war, on 2 March 1858.

[10] In 1861 he acquired Plas Newydd in Llangollen where he lived in retirement, added the black and white features on the exterior and filled the interior with oddities from around the world.