Author: Yorke, Charles Isaac
Biography:
YORKE, Charles Isaac (1801-63: ancestry.co.uk)
He was born on 7 Oct. 1801 and baptised on 6 Nov. at Great Horkesley, Essex, the second of eight children of Rev. Philip Yorke (1770-1817) and his wife Anna Maria Cocks (1773-1835, daughter of Charles Cocks, Lord Somers), who had married in London in 1797. He was educated at Harrow, proceeded to Trinity College, Cambridge (BA 1823, MA 1827) and then entered the church. He was Vicar of Latton with Eysey, Wiltshire (1826-30) and then Rector of Shenfield, Essex, from 1829 until his death. He married Ellen Leigh on 17 Dec. 1840 at St. Catherine’s, Liverpool. They had two sons and a daughter. He died on 25 July 1863 at Shenfield, leaving an estate of under £12,000. His Verses for Pilgrims (1834) was an accomplished volume, albeit indebted to seventeenth-century sacred poetry, for which there was a growing appreciation. His Cain and Abel (1837) is perhaps more original but now an acquired taste. He also produced the usual array of religious essays which are no longer read. (ancestry.co.uk 9 Aug. 2021; CCEd 9 Aug. 2021; Essex Standard 25 Dec. 1840, 29 July 1863; GM Sept. 1863, 380; "Sacred Poetry," Eclectic Review Mar. 1834, 212-27) AA
Other Names:
- C. I. Yorke