Joseph Sydney Yorke Military person

Sir Joseph Sydney Yorke KCB (6 June 1768 – 5 May 1831) was an officer of the Royal Navy. He served during the American Revolutionary, the French Revolutionary and the Napoleonic Wars, eventually rising to the rank of Admiral.

Personal facts

Joseph Sydney Yorke
Birth dateJune 06, 1768
Birth place
London
Date of deathMay 05, 1831
Place of death
Portsmouth

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Military person

allegianceUnited Kingdom ofGreat Britain and Ireland
award
Order of the Bath
Knight Bachelor
military operations
Battle of the Saintes
military branch
Royal Navy
military command*
relation
Charles Philip Yorke
Charles Yorke
Charles Yorke 4th Earl of Hardwicke
Philip Yorke 3rd Earl of Hardwicke
Henry Yorke (priest)
service start1780
service end1831

Topical connections

Albert Yorke 6th Earl of HardwickePolitician
Alexander Baring 1st Baron AshburtonPolitician
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Alexander PendarvesPolitician
Adrian JohnsPolitician

Joseph Sydney Yorke on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://thepeerage.com/p2545.htm
  2. http://www.nmm.ac.uk/collections/explore/object.cfm?ID=BHC3104
  3. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/30244
  4. http://www.wimpole.info/yorke_deaths.htm#jsy