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Henry Redhead Yorke

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to assist another such society. On 7 April 1794 he addressed a large outdoor meeting at Sheffield, convened to petition for a pardon to Scottish radicals convicted in political trials and to promote the
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for the expression of revolutionary sentiments, through the collaboration of Richard Acklom Harrison, Collector of Customs in Hull and John Wray, Mayor of Barton, Lincolnshire.
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Yorke was released in March 1798. His writings from then on showed support for the war policy of the Pitt administration, and he wrote on 3 August 1798 a private letter to
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At the York spring assize of 1795, true bills were found against him for conspiracy, sedition, and libel. On 23 July 1795, Yorke was tried at York before
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In 1801, and again in 1811, Yorke issued synopses of lectures in London on political and historical subjects. After a bout of illness, he was asked by
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Yorke married, in 1800, the daughter of Mr. Andrews, keeper of Dorchester Castle, and had four children. Among them was
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under the signature of Alfred or Galgacus (these were reprinted in a short volume), and was part proprietor of the
187:(Dorchester, 1798), written in prison, Yorke justified the war with France. He wrote letters for twelve months in 509:
Vol. 30, No. 3 (September 1987), pp. 623–640, at p. 630. Published by: Cambridge University Press. Stable URL:
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J. J. Sack, "The Memory of Burke and the Memory of Pitt: English Conservatism Confronts Its Past, 1806-1829",
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from 1801, and revisited France in 1802. In 1806, he was near having a duel with
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In 1792, under his original name Redhead, he published a pamphlet against the
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condemning the views of the Sheares brothers. He was a student of the
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Reason Urged against Precedent, in a letter to the people of Derby
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cause. His description was circulated to the chief magistrates of
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for conspiracy, in the absence of his co-defendants, including
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On his return to England, Yorke joine,d a radical society at
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Yorke suffered periods of serious illness, and died at
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Barbuda
Caribbean
Little Eaton
Derbyshire
Paris
Louis XVI
Sheares brothers
John Oswald
Jacques-Louis David
Derby
Sheffield
abolitionist
Liverpool
Newcastle
Sunderland
Shields
Hull
Carlisle
Lincolnshire
Sir Giles Rooke
Joseph Gales
King's Bench
Dorchester Castle
William Wickham
Inner Temple
Sir Francis Burdett
Chelsea
abolition of slavery
The Star

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