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Joseph Yorke (1807-1889), MP for Reigate

Great-grandson of Philip Yorke, I st Earl of Hardwicke, Joseph Yorke was elected to Parliament as one of two
representatives for Reigate on 30 April 1831, a seat he held only until the electoral reforms of the following year.
He married Frances, the daughter of Reginald Pole-Carew, in 1834, and they lived at Forthampton Court in
Gloucestershire.
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Henry James Tollemache (1846-1939), MP for Cheshire West, and later, Eddisbury

Eldest son of Wilbraham and Anne Tollemache of Dorfold Hall in Cheshire, Herny Tollemache was a Conservative
= Party politician for Cheshire West from the by-election of22 April 1881 until the constituency was split into eight
divisions on 28 November 1885. He represented one of those divisions, Eddisbury, until 18 January 1906.