Gerald Yorke

Gerald Yorke
Personal information
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)
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
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.

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. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ HYMENAEUS BETA, ed. (19 December 2001). "MAGICK LIBER ABA, Book Four – Parts I–IV" (PDF). Retrieved 10 January 2011.

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