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Admitted 26 October, 1600.

Son and heir of John Yonge of Colyton, Devon. Being a man of good estate in his county he took aa active part in local affairs, and was returned for the borough of Honiton in 1640. At the outbreak of the Civil War he was appointed one of the Victuallers to the Navy. He died Dec. 1649.

He published a book on the duties of a Justice of the Peace (1642), but a work of far greater interest is a Diary or Note left in MS., and now in the British Museum, from which we gather very interesting particulars of the proceedings of the Long Parliament from 1642 to 1645.

Admitted 1 December, 1735.

Second son of Rt. Hon., Lord Hardwicke (q. v.). Born in London 30 Dec. 1722. Though entered of the Middle Temple, he removed to Lincoln's Inn 23 Oct. 1742, and was called to the Bar there 1 Feb. 1745, and elected a Bencher 8 May, 1754. He possessed his father's talents, and his promotion both in the legal and political world was rapid. He became Solicitor-General in 1756, and Attorney-General in 1762, Lord Chancellor 17 Jan. 1770, with the prospective title of Baron Morden, but he died, it is supposed by his own hand, a few days afterwards, 20 Jan. 1770.

In addition to legal and political, Yorke aspired to literary, fame. He contributed to the Athenian Letters, and has left some Essays in verse.

Admitted 29 November, 1708.

Son and heir of Philip Yorke, Attorney, of Dover, where he was born 1 Dec. 1690. His mother was the widow of Edward Gibbon, the historian. He was called to the Bar 27 May, 1715, elected a Bencher 10 Feb. 1720, and was Reader and Treasurer in 1721. On 26 July, 1724, Yorke migrated from the Middle Temple to Lincoln's Inn, where he was made a Bencher. He entered Parliament in 1719, and the following year became Solicitor-General, and Attorney-General 1724, which office he held till his advancement to the Chief Judgeship of the King's Bench in 1733, from which he was transferred to the Woolsack in 1737. On his promotion to the Bench he was created a Baron, and in 1754 received an Earldom. He died 6 March, 1764, leaving a reputation second to none as a judge and jurist.

Admitted 28 October, 1729.

"Son and heir of (q. v.), Knight, Attorney-General to King George II., one of the Masters of the Bench." He matriculated at Cambridge in 1737, and received the degree of LL.D. in 1749. He displayed at this early period a taste for literature, and was one of the contributors to the Athenian Letters (1741). He sat in Parliament first for Reigate and then for Cambridgeshire from 1741 till his succession to the Peerage in 1764. He took an active part in Parliament both as a commoner and a peer, but