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Albert Edward Philip Henry Yorke, 6th Earl of Hardwicke, was born 14 March 1867 in Paris, Île-de-France, France to Charles Philip Yorke, 5th Earl of Hardwicke (1836-1897) and Sophia Georgiana Robertina Wellesley (1840-1923) and died 29 November 1904 Westminster, Greater London, England, United Kingdom of unspecified causes.





Obituary

BRITISH MINISTER DEAD.
THE EARL OF HARDWICKE.
LONDON. November 29.

The death is announced, in his 37th year, of the Earl of Hardwicke (Albert Edward Yorke), son of the sixth earl by Lady Sophie Georgiana, daughter of the first Earl of Cowley.

His lordship was born at the British Embassy in Paris on March 14, 1867, educated at Eton, and entered the diplomatic service, being attache to the British Embassy at Vienna from 1886 to 1891. Six years later he succeeded to the title, on the death of his father. In 1900 he was made Under Secretary of State for India by the late Lord Salisbury, one of his colleagues being the late Lord Ridley, whose death occurred this week. When Mr. Balfour reconstructed the Government in 1902 the Earl of Hardwicke was made Under Secretary for War, but he resumed his place at the India Office last year.

The Earl, who was unmarried, will be succeeded by his uncle, the Hon. John Manners, who was born in 1840, and who, after serving in the Baltic and the Crimea, retired from the British navy with the rank of captain.

The Advertiser (Adelaide), 1 December 1904, page 5




Political offices
Preceded by
The Earl of Onslow
Under-Secretary of State for India
1900–1902
Succeeded by
Earl Percy
Preceded by
The Lord Raglan
Under-Secretary of State for War
1902–1903
Succeeded by
The Earl of Donoughmore
Peerage of Great Britain
Preceded by
Charles Philip Yorke
Earl of Hardwicke
1897–1904
Succeeded by
John Manners Yorke




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