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Charles Philip Yorke ( 1764- 1834), son of Charles Yorke, member of parliament for Cambridgeshire and afterwards for Liskeard, was Secretary of State for War and the Colonies in Addington's ministry in 1801, transferring to the Home Office in 1803, where he was a strong opponent of concession to the Roman Catholics. He made himself exceedingly unpopular in 1810 by bringing about the exclusion of strangers, including reporters for the press, from the House of Commons under the standing order, which led to the imprisonment of Sir Francis Burdett in the Tower and to riots in London. In the same year Yorke joined Spencer Perceval's government as First Lord of the Admiralty; he retired from public life in 1818, and died in 1834. Charles Yorke's second son by his second marriage was Sir Joseph Sydney Yorke (1768-1831), an admiral in the navy, whose son succeeded to the Earldom of Hardwicke.


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Lord PelhamThomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester ( 1756- 1826), known before 1805 as Lord Pelham son of the 1st earl, was surveyor-general of ordnance in Lord Rockingham's 2nd ministry ( 1782), and Chief Secretary for Ireland in the coalition ministry of 1783. In 17 		Home Secretary
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Lord Hawkesbury
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The Lord MulgraveHenry Phipps, 1st Earl of Mulgrave ( 14 February 1755 7 April 1831) was a British statesman and politician. Succeeding his brother Constantine John Phipps as Baron Mulgrave of Mulgrave ( Peerage of Great Britain) and Baron Mulgrave of New Ross ( Peerage o 		First Lord of the Admiralty
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The Viscount MelvilleRobert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville ( 1771- 1851) was a British statesman, the son of Henry Dundas, the 1st Viscount. Melville filled various political offices and was First Lord of the Admiralty fron 1812 to 1827 and from 1828 to 1830; his name is perpe


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