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WYVILL

Origins: The family claimed to have fought with the Conqueror at Hastings (Dictionary of National Biography, xxi, 1193). Their fortune was founded in the 15th and early 16th centuries and augmented by marriage. The son of the founder entertained Elizabeth I at Constable Burton and was Vice Chamberlain of the Household. First MP 1553. One additional MP 1584-97.

1. Christopher Wyvill 3 Bt – Richmond 1659 1660 2. Sir Marmaduke Wyvill 5 Bt – Richmond 1695-98 3. Sir Marmaduke Wyvill 6 Bt – Richmond 1727-28 4. Marmaduke Wyvill – York 1820-30 5. Marmaduke Wyvill – Richmond 1847-65 1866-68 6. Marmaduke Wyvill – Otley Div. W. R. Yorkshire 1895-1900

Seats: Constable Burton, Yorkshire (built 1338, acq. c. 1550, remod. later 16th c., new house 1762-68, still own); Denton Hall (Park), Yorkshire (Ibbetsons purch. 1717, passed by mar. to Wyvills 1861, family departed c. 1902, sold 1920, business use) Estates: Bateman 8309 (E) 9141 Title: 1611-1774 Notes: Three in ODNB.

YELVERTON & WALES

Viscount Avonmore (1800-1910 I)

Origins: Possibly related to the Yelvertons of Easton Maudit, Northamptonshire (see Grey II), but no proof. To Ireland in the later 17th c. The 1 rose by merit beginning as an usher in a boarding school (Malcolmson, John Foster: the Politics of the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy, 5). He became a successful lawyer and judge.

1. Barry Yelverton 1 Viscount Avonmore – {Donegal 1774-76 Carrickfergus 1776-83} 2. Walter Yelverton – {Tuam 1797-1800} 3. William Yelverton – Carmarthen 1832-35

Seats: Belle Isle, Tipperary (acq. and built c. 1790-1800, sold 1879 or c. 1910); Hazle Rock (Hazelrock), Mayo (acq. and built early 19th c., sold 1879, ruin); Fortfield House, Dublin (acq. later 18th c., built c. 1785, sold mid-19th c., demolished 1940s); Whitland Abbey, Carmarthenshire (acq. by mar. of 1825, passed by inher. to Blakes 1920, who took name Yelverton in 1927, sold c. 1930s and 1951) Estates: 3260 (I) 1102 in 1878; Bateman 2837 (W) 3040 Title: Yelverton (1795-1910 I) Notes: 1 and 4 in ODNB. 614 List of Parliamentary Families

YERBURGH

Baron Alvingham (1929- UK)

Origins: The Yerburghs acquired land in the 12th century. First MP 1325. One additional MP 1450. Robert Yerburgh MP 1886-1916 was a barrister and politician.

1. Robert Yerburgh – Chester 1886-1906 1910-16 2. Robert Yerburgh 1 Baron Alvingham – S. Dorset 1922-29

Seats: Caythorpe Court, Lincolnshire (built 1899-1901, purch. 1907, sold 1948, institutional use); Woodfold Park (Hall), Lancashire (acq. by mar. from Thwaites 1888, family departed 1945, house sold 1949, unroofed and partly demolished 1955, still own but a ruin, now flats) Peer: 1 peer 1929-45 Notes: First 20th-century MP married the Thwaites brewery heiress, who managed the business herself and whose money purchased Caythorpe. The family continued to manage the business until most of it was sold for 25 million pounds in 2015. One in ODNB.

Thwaites

Origins: The Thwaites were brewers in Blackburn (company founded 1807). The Thwaites heiress married Robert Yerburgh MP who succeeded to the company and estates.

1. Daniel Thwaites – Blackburn 1875-80

Seats: Woodfold Park (Hall), Lancashire (built 1796-99, purch. 1865, passed by mar. to the Yerburghs 1888); Billinge Scarr, Lancashire (purch. and built 1876, passed by mar. to Yerburghs 1888, sold c. 1907, demolished 1947) Estates: Bateman 4569 (E) 24828

YONGE (Young)

Origins: Mayor of Bristol under Henry IV. A younger son went to , Mayor 1453. Justice of the ’s Bench (d. 1476). Merchants and landowners under Elizabeth I. First MP 1413 for Bristol (Gloucestershire 1460). Five further MPs 1435-1649 one other for Bristol.

1. Sir John Yonge 1 Bt – Plymouth 1642 Honiton 1654 Devon 1656 Honiton 1660 2. Sir Walter Yonge 2 Bt – Honiton 1659 Lyme Regis 1660 Dartmouth 1667-70 3. Sir Walter Yonge 3 Bt – Honiton 1679-81 Ashburton 1689-90 Honiton 1690-1710 List of Parliamentary Families 615

4. Sir William Yonge 4 Bt – Honiton 1715-54 Tiverton 1754-55 5. Sir George Yonge 5 Bt – Honiton 1754-61 1763-96 Old Sarum 1799-1801

Seats: Colyton House, Devon (purch. 16th c., sold 1789); Escott House, Devon (purch. 16th c., sold 1794) Title: Baronet 1661-1812 1 in Cabinet 1735-41 Notes: 5 Bt was bankrupt at the end of his life (d. 1812). Five in ODNB.

YORKE I [Freman] & WALES

Earl of Hardwicke (1754- GB)

Origins: The founder of the family was a merchant in Dover (d. 1682). His son was a solicitor. His son became 1736.

1. Philip Yorke 1 of Hardwicke – Lewes 1719-22 Seaford 1722-23 2. Philip Yorke 2 – Reigate 1741-47 Cambridgeshire 1747-64 3. – Reigate 1747-68 University of Cambridge 1768-70 4. Joseph Yorke 1 Baron Dover – East Grinstead 1751-61 Dover 1761-74 Grampound 1774-80 5. John Yorke – Higham Ferrers 1753-68 Reigate 1768-84 6. Philip Yorke 3 Earl of Hardwicke – Cambridgeshire 1780-90 7. Charles Yorke – Cambridgeshire 1790-1810 St. Germans 1810-12 Liskeard 1812-18 8. Sir Joseph Yorke – Reigate 1790-1806 St. Germans 1806-10 West Looe 1812 Sandwich 1812-18 Reigate 1818-31 9. Philip Yorke Viscount Royston – Reigate 1806-08 10. Joseph Yorke – Reigate 1831-32 11. Charles Yorke 4 Earl of Hardwicke – Reigate 1831-32 Cambridgeshire 1832-34 12. Eliot Yorke – Cambridgeshire 1835-65 13. John Yorke – Tewkesbury 1864-68 E. Gloucestershire 1872-85 Tewkesbury 1885-86 14. Charles Yorke 5 Earl of Hardwicke – Cambridgeshire 1865-73 15. Eliot Yorke – Cambridgeshire 1873-79

Seats: Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire (built c. 1640-70, remod. 1693-1705, add. 1713- 30, purch. 1740, remod. 1742-47 and 1791-1806, add. c. 1840, sold 1894, NT 1976); Forthampton Court, Gloucestershire (medieval, remod. 1540s and 1643-47, purch. 1762, remod. c. 1788 and 1889-92, still own); Hardwicke Court, Gloucestershire (medieval, rebuilt later 16th c., remod. early 18th c., purch. c. 1726, sold 1808, demolished c. 1815) Estates: Bateman 19382 (E) 27121. The 5 Earl squandered much of the family wealth (d. 1897). Titles: Baron Hardwicke 1733- GB; Baron Dover 1788-92 GB Peers: 10 peers 1733-1945 1788-92 616 List of Parliamentary Families

3 Lds Lt 18th, 19th 5 in Cabinet 1737-56 1770 1801-06 1803-04 1810-12 1852 1858-59 1 KG 19th Notes: The Wimpole estate was sold to pay debts in the late 19th century. The 2 Earl married Jemima Campbell, daughter of he 3 Earl of Breadalbane (see Campbell I). She succeeded as Marchioness Gray in 1740 and was a great heiress. On the death of the 2 Earl his wife’s estates, which descended from the of Kent, went to his daughters. The elder was created Countess de Grey and the younger married the 2 Lord Grantham (see Grey II under Grey de Ruthin and Robinson). The 5 Earl bankrupted the estate and the 6 Earl had to earn a living as a stockbroker. 1 Baron Dover and 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 and eight others in ODNB.

Blount

Origins: Thomas Pope was the son of a small Oxfordshire landowner. He was a lawyer and became a petty official at the in 1532. He worked for Thomas Cromwell, purchased twenty manors at the Dissolution, including Tyttenhanger, was granted arms, and was knighted. He was succeeded by his wife’s brother’s son, Sir Thomas Pope Blount in 1591. Tittenhanger passed in 1747 to the Yorkes and in the 19th century to the Alexander Earls of Caledon (see Alexander).

1. Sir Thomas Pope Blount 1 Bt – St. Albans 1679-81 Hertfordshire 1689-97

Seat: Tittenhanger (Tyttenhanger) House, Hertfordshire (acq. by Popes 1547, built 16th c., passed by mar. to Blounts 1591, rebuilt 1654-55, remod. early and late 18th c., passed by mar. to the Freemans 1757 and then to the Yorkes later 18th c., and to Alexanders 1834, commercial use) Title: Baronet 1680-1757 Notes: Five in ODNB.

Yorke

Origins: Descended from a younger son of the grandfather of the 1 Earl of Hardwicke. He married the daughter and heiress of John Meller of Erdigg.

1. Philip Yorke – Helston 1775-81 2. Simon Yorke – Grantham 1793-1802

Seat: Erdigg (Erthig), Denbighshire (built 1680s, add. 1724, acq. by mar. 1733, remod. , remod. 1826, donated 1973 NT) Estates: Bateman 2341 (W) 4503 Notes: One in ODNB. List of Parliamentary Families 617

Freeman

Origins: The founder was Ralph Freeman, merchant and Lord Mayor of London d. 1634. In 1772 Aspenden passed by inheritance to the Earls of Hardwicke.

1. Ralph Freeman – Hertfordshire 1685-87 1690-95 2. Ralph Freeman – Hertfordshire 1697-1727

Seats: Tyttenhanger House, Hertfordshire (acq. by mar 1757, passed by mar. in the later 18th c. to the Yorkes, see above); Hamels Park, Hertfordshire (built c. 1580, purch. 1712, passed by inher. to Yorkes mid-18th c., sold by Yorkes 1796, rebuilt early 19th c., flats and offices); Aspenden Hall, Hertfordshire (purch. 1607, passed by inher. to Yorkes 1772, sold 1782) Notes: Extinct in male line 1772.

YORKE II

Origins: Merchant in York and of Staple in Calais in the 15th century. Also served as administrators in York. First MP 1472 for York. Successful speculators in monastic property after the Dissolution. Kt 1485. Two further MPs 1559-89.

1. Sir John Yorke – Richmond 1661-63 2. Thomas Yorke – Richmond 1689-90 1695-1710 1713-16 3. John Yorke – Richmond 1710-13 1717-27 1728-57 4. Thomas Yorke – Richmond 1757-61

Seats: Bewerley Hall, Yorkshire (purch. 1674, enlarged 1815-21, sold 1923 for £150,000 - Waterson & Meadows, Lost Houses of the West Riding, 11 - demolished c. 1965); Gouthwaite Hall, Yorkshire (acq. 16th c., submerged in a reservoir c. 1900); Halton Place, Yorkshire (owned property previously, built house 1770, add. c. 1900, still own) Estates: Bateman 14499 (E) 11000 Notes: Three in ODNB.

YOUNG

Baron Kennet (1935- UK)

Origins: The founder of the family was an 18th-century admiral. His son served in the and was created a Baronet.

1. Charles Young – Christchurch 1885-92 2. Edward Young 1 Baron Kennet – Norwich 1915-23 Sevenoakes Div. Kent 1929-35 618 List of Parliamentary Families

3. Sir George Young Baron Young – Ealing Acton 1974-97 N. W. Hampshire 1997-2015

Seat: Formosa Place, Berkshire (purch. 1785 and built 1810, demolished c. 1949, still own estate) Estates: Worth est. £1,000,000 in 2012. Title: Baron Young of Cookham 2015- UKLife; Baronet 1813- Peer: 1 peer 1935-45 1 in Cabinet 1995-97 2010-12 Notes: 1 and 2 and six others in ODNB.

YOUNGER

Viscount Younger of Leckie (1923- UK)

Origins: Brewers from the 18th century onwards.

1. George Younger 1 Viscount Younger – Ayr District 1906-22 2. Kenneth Younger – Grimsby 1945-59 3. George Younger 4 Viscount Younger – Ayr 1964-92

Seats: Leckie House (Watson House), Stirlingshire (Leckie House built 16th c., Watson House built mid-19th c., purch. 1906, family departed 1939, Watson House sold c. 1946, new house built and Old Leckie House restored, still own these houses and estate); Auchen Castle, Dumfriesshire (medieval castle, ruin, new house built 1869, passed by inher. from Butler-Johnstones (see Butler I) late 19th c./early 20th c., sold, now hotel) Estates: Own 1,700 acres at Leckie 2015. 4 Viscount died worth three and a half million pounds in 2003. Titles: Baron Blanesburgh 1923-46 UK; Baron Younger of Prestwick 1992-2003 UK Life; Baronet 1911- Peers: 3 peers 1923-45 1923-45 1 in Cabinet 1979-89 1 Ld Lt 20th Notes: Baron Blanesburgh and 1 and 4 Viscounts and three others in ODNB.