Robert Yerburgh

Robert Armstrong Yerburgh, (17 January 1853 – 18 December 1916), was a British barrister and Conservative politician. Early life He was the son of the Rev. Richard Yerburgh, vicar of New Sleaford, and Susan Higgin, daughter of John Higgin of Lancaster, and had ten full brothers and sisters; by his father's second marriage in 1863 he had two half-sisters, Annie Constance and Mabel Stanley. He was educated at Rossall School and Harrow School. He matriculated at University College, Oxford in 1873, graduating B.A. at St Alban Hall in 1877. He was called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1880. Career Yerburgh went the northern circuit as a barrister. In 1886, after losing the previous year to Walter Foster, he was elected to the House of Commons for Chester, standing for the Unionists. He lost the seat in 1906, but was elected again in 1910. In 1916 Yerburgh was intended for a peerage in 1916, but he died in December of that year, before the patent had been completed, aged 63. He was also a Deputy Lieutenant for Lancashire and a Justice of the Peace for Kirkcudbrightshire.