| Honorific Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
| The Earl of Hardwicke | |
| Succession: | 8th Earl of Hardwicke |
| Reign: | 13 March 1909 – 1 February 1936 |
| Reign-Type: | Tenure |
| Predecessor: | John Yorke, 7th Earl of Hardwicke |
| Successor: | Philip Yorke, 9th Earl of Hardwicke |
| Birth Name: | Charles Alexander Yorke |
| Birth Date: | 1869 11, df=y |
| Birth Place: | London, England |
| Death Place: | Bournemouth, Dorset, England |
| Spouse: | |
| Issue: | Lady Elizabeth Yorke |
| Father: | John Yorke, 7th Earl of Hardwicke |
| Mother: | Edith Mary Oswald |
Charles Alexander Yorke, 8th Earl of Hardwicke (11 November 1869 – 1 February 1936) was a British peer.
Yorke was born in 1869. He succeeded as the 8th Earl of Hardwicke in 1909.[1] [2] He had worked as a miner in Australia and America and was a pioneer balloonist. During the First World War he was a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve and also a King's Foreign Service Messenger.
Lord Hardwicke married Ellen Russell (known as Nellie Russell), a New Zealander, in April 1911.[3] [4] They were divorced in 1926 on the grounds of his misconduct and infidelity.[5] [6] [7] They had one daughter, Lady Elizabeth Mary Yorke, and were the maternal grandparents of Anne Glenconner.[8]
Ellen, Countess of Hardwicke, was made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in 1918 for services to the New Zealand War Contingent Association, and for helping to establish the New Zealand General Hospital in Walton-on-Thames to treat wounded New Zealand soldiers.[9] [10] She died in 1968.
Lord Hardwicke married his second wife, Mary Radley Twist, in 1930. She died in 1938.[11]
Lord Hardwicke died in February 1936 in Bournemouth. He was succeeded by his nephew Philip G. Yorke.