Charles Yorke, 8th Earl of Hardwicke

Charles Alexander Yorke, 8th Earl of Hardwicke (11 November 1869 – 1 February 1936) was a British peer.

The Right Honourable The Earl of Hardwicke
8th Earl of Hardwicke
Tenure	13 March 1909 – 1 February 1936
Predecessor	John Yorke, 7th Earl of Hardwicke
Successor	Philip Yorke, 9th Earl of Hardwicke
Born	Charles Alexander Yorke 11 November 1869 London, England
Died	1 February 1936 (aged 66) Bournemouth, Dorset, England
Spouse(s)	Ellen Russell ​ ​ (m. 1911; div. 1926)​ Mary Radley Twist ​ (m. 1930)​
Issue Lady Elizabeth Yorke
Father	John Yorke, 7th Earl of Hardwicke
Mother	Edith Mary Oswald

Yorke was born in 1869. He succeeded as the 8th Earl of Hardwicke in 1909.[1][2] He had worked as a miner in Australia and America and was a pioneer balloonist.[1][2] During World War 1 he was a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve and also a King's Foreign Service Messenger.[1][2]

Lord Hardwicke married Ellen Russell (known as Nellie Russell), a New Zealander, in April 1911.[3][4] They were divorced in 1926 on the grounds of his misconduct and infidelity.[5][6][7] They had one daughter, Lady Elizabeth Mary Yorke, and were the maternal grandparents of Anne Glenconner.[8]

Ellen, Countess of Hardwicke, was made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in 1918 for services to the New Zealand War Contingent Association, and for helping to establish the New Zealand General Hospital in Walton-on-Thames to treat wounded New Zealand soldiers.[8][9] She died in 1968.[10]

Lord Hardwicke married his second wife, Mary Radley Twist, in 1930.[1] She died in 1938.[11]

Lord Hardwicke died in February 1936 in Bournemouth.[1] He was succeeded by his nephew Philip G. Yorke.[1][2]

References

1. "Death of a Peer who Worked as a Miner". The Evening Telegraph. 3 February 1936 – via British Newspaper Archive.
2. "Lord Hardwicke". Gloucestershire Echo. 3 February 1936 – via British Newspaper Archive.
3. "A Society Wedding". Auckland Star. 28 April 1911. p. 5. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
4. "Earl of Hardwicke and Miss Nellie Russell". Leeds Mercury. 28 April 1911. p. 4 – via British Newspaper Archive.
5. "Lady Hardwicke asks for Divorce". Auckland Star. 14 October 1926. p. 8. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
6. "Decree Nisi Granted". New Zealand Herald. 24 November 1926. p. 11. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
7. "Earl of Hardwicke Decree Nisi Granted to the Countess". Lancashire Evening Post. 22 November 1926. p. 2 – via British Newspaper Archive.
8. Glenconner, Anne (2019). Lady in Waiting. London: Hodder & Stoughton. p. 42. ISBN 1-5293-5907-4. OCLC 1090914753.
9. "The London Gazette". The Gazette. 4 October 1918. p. 11772.
10. "Ellen Russell". thepeerage.com. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
11. "The Dowager Countess of Hardwicke". The Times. 23 July 1938. p. 14.

See also

• Earl of Hardwicke