Life and Correspondence of Philip Yorke, Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain

Meanwhile, his marriage in 1719 had produced a large family of five sons and two daughters, Philip, his eldest son, born December 9, 1720, Charles, born December 30, 1722, Joseph in 1724, John, August 27, 1728, James, March 9, 1730, Elizabeth, in August 1725 and Margaret, March 21, I733¹. One other child at least died young². The sons were all educated at Dr Newcombe's famous school at Hackney³, later, with the exception of Joseph, who at an early age entered the army, proceeding to Bene't, afterwards Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. They also had the advantage of a private tutor, Dr Samuel Salter, fellow of the same college, who had been recommended by the excellent Dr Thomas Herring, then Dean of Rochester, as a good scholar of exemplary character and Whig principles1. Both parents bestowed great attention on their children's education and Sir Philip found time to keep constantly in touch with his sons2. They, on their side, responded eagerly to the care spent upon them and at a very early age obtained a sound knowledge of the classics, of history and of philosophy, and showed a capacity for expressing ideas in good style and good English which would now-a-days appear phenomenal in schoolboys of 12 and 13.

Note 1. Collins, Peerage (1779), v. 321; G. E. C.'s Complete Peerage, under Anson.

Note 2. Pol. State, xxxvii. 421; Hist. Reg. April 7, 1729; H. n, ff. 13, m, 168.

Note 3. Duke of Grafton, Autobiography, 3 n.