DOUGLAS, Sir Charles Eurwicke (1806-1887), of 27 Wilton Crescent , Middlesex

b. 12 May 1806, illegit. s. of Charles Philip Yorke MP (d. 1834).There is no mention of Yorke having any children in Burke’s peerage (under earls of Hardwicke), but Lodge’s peerage, baronetage and knightage (1912), i. 966 indicates that he died without legitimate children. Douglas is erroneously described as the son of a baronet in W.D. Jones and A.B. Erickson, The Peelites, 1846-1857 (1972), 227, and as an illegitimate son of viscount Goderich in B. Trinder, (ed.), A Victorian MP and his constituents: the correspondence of H.W. Tancred, 1841-1859, viii (1969), p. xxxvii; idem, Victorian Banbury, xix (1982), 124. educ. Harrow, 1818; St. John’s, Camb., BA 1828, MA 1831. m. 15 Dec. 1832, Jane, eld. da. of Sir Charles des Voeux, bt. 1s. Kntd. 12 Oct. 1832; K.C.M.G. 1859. d. 21 Feb. 1887.