Advertisement

Vincent Wodehouse Yorke

Advertisement

Vincent Wodehouse Yorke

Birth
Forthampton, Tewkesbury Borough, Gloucestershire, England
Death
26 Nov 1957 (aged 88)
Forthampton, Tewkesbury Borough, Gloucestershire, England
Burial
Forthampton, Tewkesbury Borough, Gloucestershire, England Add to Map
Memorial ID
View Source
Vincent Yorke was a brilliant classicist who turned to business, taking over a failing coppersmith's and turning it into a profitable supplier of brewery equipment and plumbing supplies.

He was the father of the English modern novelist Henry Vincent Yorke, whose nom de plume was Henry Green.
Vincent Yorke was a brilliant classicist who turned to business, taking over a failing coppersmith's and turning it into a profitable supplier of brewery equipment and plumbing supplies.

He was the father of the English modern novelist Henry Vincent Yorke, whose nom de plume was Henry Green.


Sponsored by Ancestry

Advertisement