A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Yorke, Reginald
YORKE. (Captain, 1846.)
Reginald Yorke, born 24 Nov. 1803, is son (with Philip Jas. Yorke, a Lieut.-Colonel in the Guards) of the late Rev. Philip Yorke, Prebendary of Ely, by the Hon. Anna Maria Cocks, daughter of Charles, first Lord Somers; and brother-in-law of Sir Edm. Head, Bart. His grandfather, James, Bishop of Ely, was fifth son of Philip, first Earl of Hardwicke, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain.
This officer entered the Navy 5 Feb. 1817; passed his examination in 1824; and was made Lieutenant, 2 Aug. 1826, into the Blanche 46, Capt. Wm. Bowen Mends, on the South American station; whence he returned to England in Sept. 1827. His succeeding appointments were – 19 Aug. 1828 and 4 Feb. 1830, to the Meteor bomb, Capt. David Hope, and Asia 84, flag-ship of Sir Edw. Codrington, both in the Mediterranean – 25 May, 1831 (he had left the Asia about 12 months previously), to the Donegal 78, Capts. John Dick and Arthur Fanshawe, employed, latterly under the flag of Sir Pulteney Malcolm, on particular service – and 1 May, 1833, to the San Josef 110, as Flag-Lieutenant to Sir Wm. Hargood at Plymouth. He attained the rank of Commander 20 Nov. 1833; and served in that capacity in the Albatross 16, on the North America and West India and African stations, from 12 May, 1842, until advanced, on the paying off of the latter vessel, to the rank he now holds, 30 June, 1846.