Gerald Yorke
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| Full name | Gerald Joseph Yorke | ||||||||||||||
| Born |
10 December 1901 Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England | ||||||||||||||
| Died |
29 April 1983 (aged 81) Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England | ||||||||||||||
| Relations | VW Yorke (father) | ||||||||||||||
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| 1925 | Gloucestershire | ||||||||||||||
| Only First-class | 27 June 1925 Gloucestershire v Glamorgan | ||||||||||||||
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| 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.
Life and career
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. He was also the personal representative to the West of the Thirteenth Dalai Lama and the author of an original foreword to a secret book on the Kalachakra initiation.[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 2, page 1778.
- ↑ HYMENAEUS BETA, ed. (19 December 2001). "MAGICK LIBER ABA, Book Four – Parts I–IV". Retrieved 10 January 2011.
External links
- Gerald Yorke at Cricket Archive
- Gerald Yorke at Cricinfo
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