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Ely , Governor of Addenbrook ' s Hospital , and Visitor of Jesus , St . Jqhn ' s , and Peter ' s Colleges , Cambridge . He was the son of the first Lord Chancellor , Philip Yorke , sometimes called the great -Lord Hardwicke , a man of Dover , who from the lowest beginnings , raised
himseif by his talents and fortune , to the highest post in his profession , accumulated an immense fortune and spread the roots of his family among those of the highest trees in this realm ; and brother to the Right Hon Charles Yorke , who accepted the Seals , it is said reluctantly , on the resignation of Lord
Camden „ in 1770 , but died suddenly three days after he had become Lord Chancellor , and wfcile the patent for his peerage was making out , under the title of Baron Morden . The Bishop was of course uncle to the present Earl of Hardwicke , and the Hon . Charles Yorke , M . P . for the County of Cambridge .
Dr . Yorke married tlie daughter of jpr . Maddox , bishop of Worcester , -who was another instance of a man rising DV n * talents from very low beginnings . Maddox had been brought up as a pastry-cook , and from raising pastry was raised to be 3 head of the church .
But he had too much good sense to be ashamed of his origin ; and a pleasant anecdote is told of his recommending one day at his table , some pastry to his guests , " though , " said he , with a significant look , ' * they are not of niy own making . "
To his family interests , rather than to his talents oc learning , Dr . Yorke owed his promotion in the church . He never live believe appeared before the public as an author , or in the House of Lords as a speaker . He was successively appointed to the deanery of Lincoln , and the bishoprics of St . David ' s , Gloucester
and Ely , which last he held twentyseven years . He succeeded Dr . Moss in fhe see of St . David ' s , in 1774 ; on the death of Dr . Warburton , in 1779 , ne was translated to Gloucester ; and he was removed to Ely in 1781 , on the death of Dr .
Keene-One action alone will secure lastingreputation to Bishop Yorke . In 1789 , the mastership of Jesus College , Cambridge , which is in the gift of the Bishop of Elyj became vacant by Dr . Beadon ' s becoming Bi 9 hop of Gloucester . Bishop Yorke immediately offered it to Archdeacon Paley , to whom he seems to have
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been unknown , without any solicitation , and in consideration solely of his merits . This honourable patronage induced Paley to dedicate his " Evidences "* to the Bishop . " The circumstances , " says the dedicator , " under which this offer was
made , demand a public acknowledgment . I had never seen your lordship ; I possessed no connexion which could possibly recommend me to your Favour ; I was known to you only by my endeavours , in common with many others , to discharge my- duty as a tutor in the University ; and by some very imperfect , but certainly well intended , and as you
thought , useful publications since . " Notwithstanding Paley * s sense of his lordship ' s conduct , whose notice he declares to be " the most flattering distinction of his life , " he declined , for what reasons does not appear , the mastershi p of Jesus College . The year before , Mr . Frend , of that college , had endeavoured to procure the abolition of the subscription to the articles required of candidates for
the degree of Batchelor of Arts . Dr . Beadon , then master , had taken upon him to displace Mr . Frend from his office of tutor . Mr . Frend appealed to the Bishop of Ely , the visitor of the college ; and the Bishop thought
proper to confirm the master ' s sentence . Possibly Paley might think if he became the head of the college , he must filter into this dispute ; and he had been the tutor of Mr . Frend , and was known to be not very dissimilar to him in religious sentiments . It would have been to the
Bishop ' s honour if he had acted as liberally towards the pupil as the tutor . But his conduct towards Mr . Frend was as dishonourable as that to Dr . Paley was honourable , he having confirmed first the removal of that gentleman from his tutorship , and next his banishment from his college .
His lordship has left behind him a widow and numerous relatives and descendants . He is succeeded in the see of Ely , by Dr . Thomas Dampier , bishop of Rochester . Sunday , October 9 , died at Chatham , Mrs . CATHERINE ALL . IBONE . She
had attained somewhat beyond that period when the human strength is at best " but labour and sorrow . " For some years she painfully suffered from an asth * matic complaint and ultimately fell a vie * tim to its force . — The grand distinguishing feature in her character , was a tender su » r
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bfa Obituary .
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1 Right Rev . James Yorke , Z . L . D . Mrs , Catherine Allibone *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1808, page 572, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2397/page/48/
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