Ancestry of Matthew Henry Yorke

This article written March 2013 by Will Johnson, wjhonson@aol.com, Professional Genealogist

Matthew Henry Yorke is an author descending from King Charles II

All four of Matthew's four grandparents also descend from Richard Cecil

1 Matthew Henry Yorke, author

2 Sebastian Yorke

3 Emma Christine Tennant, author

4 Henry Vincent Yorke, alias Henry Green, author

5 Adelaide Mary Biddulph

6 Christopher Grey Tennant, 2nd Baron Glenconner; G

7 Elizabeth Powell

8 Vincent Wodehouse Yorke

9 Maud Evelyn Wyndham

10 John Biddulph, Lord Biddulph

11 Marjorie Caroline Susan Mure

12 Edward Priaulx Tennant, 1st Baron Glenconner

13 Pamela Genevieve Adelaide Wyndham

14 Evelyn George Harcourt Powell, Lt Col, Grenadier Guards

15 Phyllis Olive Barbara Pryor

16 John Reginald Yorke; MP 1864-86; W

17 Sophia Matilda de Tuyll de Serooskerken

18 Henry Wyndham, 2nd Lord Leconfield of Leconfield

19 Constance Evelyn Primrose

20 Michael Biddulph, 1st Baron Biddulph

21 Adelaide Georgiana Peel

22 William Mure of Caldwell, co Ayr

23 Constance Elizabeth Wyndham

24 Charles Clow Tennant, Knt and 1st Bnt; W

25 Emma Winsloe

26 Percy Scawen Wyndham

27 Madeline Caroline Frances Eden Campbell

28 Baron Vincent de Tuyll de Serooskerken

29 Charlotte Henrietta Mansfield

30 Robert Pryor

31 Matilda Eyre

32 Joseph Yorke of Forthampton Court, co Glouc; MP; W

33 Frances Antonia Pole-Carew

34 Unknown

35 Unknown

36 George Wyndham, 1st Baron Leconfield of Leconfield

37 Mary Fanny Blunt, G

38 Archibald Primrose, Lord Dalmeny

39 Catherine Lucy Wilhelmina Stanhope

40 Robert Biddulph of Ledbury; G

41 Elizabeth Palmer

42 Jonathan Peel, General

43 Alicia Jane Kennedy

44 William Mure of Caldwel, co Ayr

45 Laura Markham

46 George Wyndham, 1st Baron Leconfield of Leconfield

47 Mary Fanny Blunt, G

48 John Tennant of St Rollox, Lanark

49 Robina Arrol

50 Richard Winsloe

51 unknown

52 George Wyndham, 1st Baron Leconfield of Leconfield

53 Mary Fanny Blunt, G

54 Guy Campbell

55 Pamela FitzGerald

56 Unknown

57 Unknown

58 John Edward Mansfield of Diggeswell House , P

59 Mary Buchanan Smith

60 Arthur Pryor of Hylands, co Essex

61 Elizabeth Sophia Dew

62 Vincent Anthony Eyre of Lindley, co Leic and Newbold, co Derby

63 Anne or Jane Frances Huddleston

This last person ascends as follows

Anne or Jane Frances /Huddleston/

daughter of Edward /Huddleston/ of Sawston Hall, co Camb and of Caundle Purse, co Dorset; esq

and Sarah /Barton/

son of Ferdinand /Huddleston/

and Mary /Lucas/

son of Richard /Huddleston/ of Sawston, esq

and Jane /Belchier/

son of Richard /Huddleston/ of Sawston, esq

and Mary /Ayloffe/

son of Richard /Huddleston/ of Sawston; esq

and Mary /Bostock/

son of Henry /Hodelston/

and Mary /Havers/

son of Henry /Hodelston/ of Salston; esq

and Dorothy /Dormer/

Henry was the

son of Edmund /Huddleston/ of Sawston Hall; Knt

and Dorothy /Beconsall/

while Dorothy Dormer was the

daughter of Robert Dormer, 1st Baron /Dormer/ of Wyng, co Bucks

and Elizabeth /Browne/