Английская Википедия:Charles Yorke, 8th Earl of Hardwicke
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Charles Alexander Yorke, 8th Earl of Hardwicke (11 November 1869 – 1 February 1936) was a British peer.Шаблон:Sfn
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 the First World War 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.[9][8][10] She died in 1968.
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]
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