Gerald Yorke
Major Gerald Joseph Yorke (10 December 1901 – 29 April 1983) was an English soldier and writer. He was a Reuters correspondent while in China for two years in the 1930s, and wrote a book China Changes (1936).[1][2]
Life
Gerald Joseph Yorke was born in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, on 10 December 1901; the second son of Vincent Wodehouse Yorke and Hon. Maud Evelyn Wyndham.[3] 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.[3]
The travels of Yorke together with his manservant Li through often bandit-stricken areas were part of China Changes and also commented on by adventurer and Special Correspondent to The Times Peter Fleming in his One's Company, a travelogue of a journey to China in 1933.[4]
Back in Britain at Forthampton Yorke was also the personal representative to the West of the Thirteenth Dalai Lama (died 1933) and the author of an original foreword to a secret book on the Kalachakra initiation.[5] Yorke was also a member of the A∴A∴, the magical order established by Aleister Crowley (died 1947), and towards the end of Crowley's life was known as his chief disciple.
Bibliography
- China Changes, New York, C. Scribnerʼs Sons, 1936.
- Bibliography of the works of Aleister Crowley by Gerald Yorke. Mandrake Press, 1991.
- Aleister Crowley, the Golden Dawn and Buddhism : reminiscences and writings of Gerald Yorke, ed. Keith Richmond Teitan Press, 2011.
- The Great Beast : the life of Aleister Crowley, by John Symonds with Gerald Yorke 1951.
Cricket
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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 | |||||||||||||||
He was also a keen cricketer who made a single first class appearance for Gloucestershire. He was born and died in Tewkesbury. Yorke's single first-class appearance for the team, occured 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.
References
- ↑ The New York Times Book Review - Volume 1 1936 - Page 37 "A Reporter Observes China's Changes Mr. Yorke, a Reuters Correspondent, Spent Two Recent Years There come acquainted with the situation which was contributing to such a sweeping success of the invader. Some of the extraordinary ..."
- ↑ Now & Then: A Journal of Books and Personalities 1935 "This is what the Sunday Times said of Mr. Gerald Yorke's China Changes: This is a vital and absorbing book, which will give Western readers a far better understanding of the Chinese and their difficulties than many more pretentious volumes, .."
- 1 2 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.
- ↑ Gareth Jones (journalist) : JOURNEY FROM CANTON TO CHANGSHA "(see Peter Fleming’s One’s Company for a description of Li and of Gerald and also of the journey I did, except that Fleming and Gerald came with his Chinese servant Li from Changsha to Canton while I did it from Canton to Changsha)."
- ↑ HYMENAEUS BETA, ed. (19 December 2001). "MAGICK LIBER ABA, Book Four – Parts I–IV" (PDF). Retrieved 10 January 2011.
External links
- Gerald Yorke at Cricket Archive
- Gerald Yorke at Cricinfo
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