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Baroness Elizabeth Philippa Biddulph
1834–1916
A Victorian humanitarian and temperance campaigner who also turned to life writing, she is best known in literary circles for her memoir of her father, Charles Yorke, 4th Earl of Hardwicke. Her work blends family history, public service, and the social concerns of late 19th-century Britain.
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Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. — a Memoir
by Baroness Elizabeth Philippa Biddulph
About the author
Born Lady Elizabeth Yorke in 1834, she later became Elizabeth Biddulph, Baroness Biddulph. She was known in her own time as an English humanitarian and temperance leader, and she also served in Queen Victoria’s household as a Woman of the Bedchamber.
As a writer, she is chiefly associated with Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N.: A Memoir, a biography of her father. That book gives modern readers a glimpse not only of an admiral and politician, but also of the values, loyalties, and family world that shaped the British aristocracy of her era.
She died in 1916. Though not a prolific author, her surviving work stands at an interesting meeting point between biography, remembrance, and Victorian public life.