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24 de mai. de 2024 · Digital scan and transcript A group of plantation owners asked Sir Philip Yorke, the Attorney General, and Charles Talbot, Solicitor General, to clarify the legal position of slaves from the colonies brought to UK. Evidence of continued slave trading after 1807. Open access digital scan and transcript of court filing.
Há 21 horas · Thomas Edward Yorke (born 7 October 1968) is an English musician who is the main vocalist and songwriter of the rock band Radiohead. A multi-instrumentalist, he mainly plays guitar and keyboards and is noted for his falsetto. Rolling Stone described Yorke as one of the greatest and most influential singers of his generation.
Há 4 dias · One of Wimpole’s owners was Attorney-General Philip Yorke. His opinion that an enslaved person did not become free on reaching English soil governed legal thought on slavery for nearly half a century. The present house, at the heart of this estate, was the vision of Elsie Bambridge.
Há 5 dias · Philip’s son Simon continued the tradition, noting of Thomas Pritchard, a gardener who helped the gamekeeper: Of cock and partridge rang the knell, And loudly called as dead as hell . When the Yorke family handed Erddig to the National Trust in 1973, everything in the house remained unchanged, so visitors can see many details of servant life.
Há 1 dia · Parting from notions of danger as threat, her archival study shows that danger was productive, especially of masculinity and the superiority of the elite. This innovative argument is first supported by a rigorous historiography of the concept of danger in the eighteenth century, explored in chapter 1.
12 de mai. de 2024 · Yorke was born the youngest son of Admiral Charles Philip Yorke, the Fourth Earl of Hardwicke (1799-1873), of Wimpole Hall in Cambridgeshire. Yorke became friends with Prince Leopold, the Duke of Albany, the youngest and some say favorite son of Queen Victoria during their days at Oxford.
Há 4 dias · Philip Yorke, third earl, nephew of his predecessor, was a life-long patron of (Sir) John Soane, who had worked for him in London as early as 1784 (Soane's MS. 'Architectural Precedents', 12–13 and 42, in Soane's Museum); he was designing gates for the Whaddon entrance to Wimpole as late as 1819 and remained in contact with the ...
