John Yorke (Conservative politician)

John Reginald Yorke (25 January 1836 – 2 March 1912) was an English landowner and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1864 and 1886.

A member of the Yorke family headed by the Earl of Hardwicke, he was born in Marylebone, London, the son of Joseph Yorke, of Forthampton Court, Gloucestershire[1] and his wife Frances Antonia, daughter of Reginald Pole-Carew.

He was also a Deputy Lieutenant of Worcestershire and captain in the Tewkesbury Rifle Volunteers.

Yorke married Augusta Emmiline Monteath Douglas at St Georges Hanover Square on 4 March 1862.

[5][6] Another son, Ralph Maximilian Yorke, reached the rank of brigadier-general during the First World War.