Personal information | ||||
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Full name | Gerald Joseph Yorke | |||
Born | 10 December 1901 Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England |
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Died | 29 April 1983 Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England |
(aged 81)|||
Relations | VW Yorke (father) | |||
Domestic team information | ||||
Years | Team | |||
1925 | Gloucestershire | |||
Only First-class | 27 June 1925 Gloucestershire v Glamorgan | |||
Career statistics | ||||
Competition | First-class | |||
Matches | 1 | |||
Runs scored | 6 | |||
Batting average | 3.00 | |||
100s/50s | 0/0 | |||
Top score | 6 | |||
Catches/stumpings | 0/– | |||
Source: CricketArchive, 10 January 2011 |
Major Gerald Joseph Yorke (10 December 1901 – 29 April 1983) was an English cricketer who played for Gloucestershire. He was born and died in Tewkesbury. Yorke made a single first-class appearance for the team, during the 1925 season, against Glamorgan. From the middle order, he scored a duck in the first innings in which he batted, and 6 runs in the second.
Gerald Joseph Yorke was born in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, on 10 December 1901; the second son of Vincent Wodehouse Yorke and Hon. Maud Evelyn Wyndham.[1] He attended Eton College, and then Trinity College, Cambridge University, where he gained a Bachelor of Arts. He joined the British Army and served in the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars and gained the rank of Major. He married Angela Vivien Duncan, and the pair had three children: John Sarne, Vincent James and Michael Piers.[1] He was a member of the A∴A∴, a magical order set up by Aleister Crowley.[2]