Vincent Wodehouse Yorke (21 May 1869 – 27 November 1957) was an English

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er who played for

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. He was born in

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and died in

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. Yorke was the son of

John Reginald Yorke John Reginald Yorke (25 January 1836 – 2 March 1912) was an English landowner and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1864 and 1886. Background and education A member of the Yorke family headed by the Earl of Hard ...

and Sophia Matilda de

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de Serooskerken. He was a wealthy landowner and industrialist in

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. He married Hon. Maud Evelyn Wyndham, daughter of the second Baron Leconfield.Molten Treasure (1949)- TIME
/ref> He attended University of Cambridge, where

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was a fellow student who fell in love with him. Benson wrote in his diary: "I feel perfectly mad about him just now...Ah, if only he knew, and yet I think he does." Yorke made a single first-class appearance for the Gloucestershire team, during the 1898 season, against

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.Vincent Yorke
at Cricinfo Batting in the middle of the order, Yorke scored 10 runs in the only innings in which he batted. Yorke's first son was Philip Yorke, who died of

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, allegedly as a result of

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practised by

George Orwell Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950) was an English novelist, poet, essayist, journalist, and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell. His work is characterised by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to a ...

. The oldest son to survive to adulthood, Henry Vincent Yorke, an English author under the name Henry Green, best remembered for the novels ''Party Going'', ''Living'', and ''Loving''."Romancing: The Life and Work of Henry Green" – Review, Insight on the News Yorke's second son,

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, made a single first-class appearance for the Gloucestershire team in 1925.

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