Robert Yerburgh

Robert Armstrong Yerburgh, DL, JP (17 January 1853 – 18 December 1916), was a British barrister and Conservative politician.

Yerburgh supported the British Produce Supply Organisation, set up in 1896 by Murray Finch-Hatton, 12th Earl of Winchilsea.

[5][6] He acted as president of the National Agricultural Union, and in 1901 introduced a motion in the House of Commons on the food security of the United Kingdom, about which he had grave concerns.

[5][4][8] In 1888 Yerburgh married Elma Amy, a daughter of Daniel Thwaites,[9] and the couple lived at Billinge Scar, near Blackburn, before moving to Woodfold Hall.

Their younger son, Robert, also became a Conservative politician and was elevated to the peerage as Baron Alvingham in 1929 (his older brother, Richard, having died in 1926).