A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank, but uninvested with heritable honours (1836)
hree olive branches, vert. Crest—A sword in pale arg. hilt and pom-mel or, gripe gules. Seat—Gledstone House, near Skipton,Yorkshire. YORKE, OF ERTHIG. YORKE, SIMON, esq. of Erthig, in the county of Denbigh, b. 27th July, 1771,m, 1 Ith March, 1807, Margaret, younger daughter of the late John… … The family of Yorke, of which tlie EarlOF Hardwicke is the elder branch, cameoriginally from Calne, in Wiltshire, andwere afterwards seated at Dover, and in theIsle of Thanet. The ancestry of the celebrated noble-man (Lord Hardwicke), says Sir EgertonBrydges, though of no particular lustreeither…
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