Horatio Arthur Yorke
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Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Horatio Arthur Yorke (3 June 1848 - 10 December 1930) C.B. R.E. was Inspector of Railways to the Board of Trade from 1900 to 1913.
He was born on 3 June 1848 near New Wimpole in Cambridgeshire, the fourth son of the Ven the Hon Henry Reginald Yorke (1803-1871) and Flora Elizabeth Campbell (1813-1852).
He was educated at Cheam School and then Charterhouse School.
On 24 August 1869, he married Harriette Forsse in Gravesend, Kent. This marriage ended in divorce in 1891.[1] On 26 July 1893 he married Rebecca Caroline Garstin (d.1943), daughter of the Revd. Anthony Gartin, Rector of St Peter's Church, Redmile, Leicestershire.
He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1904[2] and knighted on his retirement in 1913.[3]
He died on 10 December 1930 in London and left an estate valued at £4,234 (equivalent to £338,100 in 2023).[4]