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Baroness Elizabeth Philippa Biddulph
1834–1916
A Victorian writer with a strong public conscience, she combined aristocratic connections with practical reform work. Best known for her memoir of her father, she was also active in temperance and humanitarian causes.
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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, Baroness Elizabeth Philippa Biddulph later became known as an English humanitarian, temperance leader, and courtier. She served Queen Victoria as a Woman of the Bedchamber and was part of the social reform world of late Victorian Britain.
As an author, she is chiefly remembered for Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. — a Memoir, a biography of her father. The book draws on family knowledge and personal perspective, which gives it the tone of both a historical record and a daughter’s tribute.
Her life joined public duty, philanthropy, and writing. That mix makes her an interesting figure for readers drawn to memoir, biography, and the lives of women who worked behind the scenes of nineteenth-century public life.