Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke Essays

  • The Aim of the National Trust to Provide Time Capsules of Ownership

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    The Aim of the National Trust to Provide Time Capsules of Ownership The National Trust aims to provide time capsules of ownership in and around the Wimpole Estate. Wimpole Hall had many owners over a period of about 400 years, each owner leaving their own legacy. The National Trust has the job of untangling the layers of history to recreate snapshots of different points in time. By examining each owner and their stamp on Wimpole, it is possible to see whether the National Trust is successful

  • William Jones and Pi

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    mathematics to navigation, studying methods to calculate position at sea. Soon he was employed to tutor Philip Yorke, who was later to become Baron Hardwicke of Hardwicke. This was an important position for Jones since Yorke, after a legal career, entered parliament becoming a solicitor general in 1720, an attorney general in 1724, a lord chief justice in 1733, and a lord chancellor 1737. Jones tutored Yorke for about three years. He published “Synopsis Palmariorum Mathesios” in 1706. The book was based