Henry Yorke (priest)


Henry Reginald Yorke was Archdeacon of Huntington from 22 March 1856 to 16 March 1870.
The son of Joseph Sydney Yorke, he was born in Bursledon,educated at St John's College, Cambridge and ordained in 1827. He held incumbencies at Aspenden and Wimpole; was a JP for Cambridgeshire; and a Canon at Ely Cathedral from 1859 until his death; he was granted, with his brother's succession to the peerage, the style and precedence of the younger son of an earl.
His brother was a British naval commander and Conservative politician; and his brother-in-law — Robert Cooper Lee Bevan — an eminent banker.