Joseph Yorke, 1st Baron Dover
General Joseph Yorke, 1st Baron Dover KB, PC (24 June 1724 – 2 December 1792), styled The Honourable Joseph Yorke until 1761 and The Honourable Sir Joseph Yorke between 1761 and 1788, was a British soldier, diplomat and Whig politician.
Background
Yorke was the third son of Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, by Margaret, daughter of Charles Cocks. Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, Charles Yorke and James Yorke were his brothers.[1]
Career
Yorke served in the War of the Austrian Succession as an aide-de-camp to the Duke of Cumberland, and fought in the Battle of Fontenoy in 1745. He became a Major-General in 1758, a Lieutenant-General in 1760 and a full General in 1777.
In 1749 he was appointed Secretary to the British Embassay in Paris. Two years later he became Minister Plenipotentiary to the United Provinces, a post he held for the next thirty years. He was involved in the Anglo-Prussian Convention in 1758.[2] His post was upgraded to that of ambassador in 1761.[1] During this period he also sat in the House of Commons for East Grinstead between 1751 and 1761,[1][3] for Dover between 1761 and 1774[1][4] and for Grampound between 1774 and 1780.[1][5] He was appointed a Knight Companion of the Order of the Bath (KB) in 1761 and sworn of the Privy Council in 1768.[1] In 1788 he was raised to the peerage as Lord Dover, Baron of the Town and Port of Dover, in the County of Kent.[6]
Family
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Lord Dover married Christiana Charlotte Margaret, daughter of Johan Henrik, Baron de Stöcken, a Danish nobleman, in 1783. They had no children. He died in December 1792, aged 68, when the barony became extinct. Lady Dover only survived her husband by three months and died in March 1793.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g thepeerage.com General Joseph Yorke, 1st and last Lord Dover, Baron of the Town and Port of Dover
- ^ [https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/albion/article/lord-bute-newcastle-prussia-and-the-hague-overtures-a-re-examination/7AE4AF099326DEEC194BDC0E00E005B4 Lord Bute, Newcastle, Prussia, and the Hague Overtures: A Re-Examination by Karl W. Schweizer]
- ^ "leighrayment.com House of Commons: Ealing to Elgin". Archived from the original on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 23 October 2010.
- ^ "leighrayment.com House of Commons: Dover to Dulwich and West Norwood". Archived from the original on 30 September 2018. Retrieved 23 October 2010.
- ^ "leighrayment.com House of Commons: Gorbals to Guildford". Archived from the original on 5 November 2018. Retrieved 23 October 2010.
- ^ "No. 13024". The London Gazette. 9 September 1788. p. 437.
External links
- . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
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