# Robert Yerburgh
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{{short description|British politician}}
{{about||his son, the British politician|Robert Yerburgh, 1st Baron Alvingham}}
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[[File:Robert Armstrong Yerburgh, Vanity Fair, 1893-10-19.jpg|thumb|"Chester". Caricature by [Spy](/source/Leslie_Ward) published in [Vanity Fair](/source/Vanity_Fair_(British_magazine_1868-1914)) in 1893.]]
'''Robert Armstrong Yerburgh''', {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|DL|JP}} (17 January 1853 – 18 December 1916), was a British [barrister](/source/barrister) and [Conservative](/source/Conservative_Party_(UK)) politician.
==Early life==
He was the son of the Rev. Richard Yerburgh, vicar of [New Sleaford](/source/New_Sleaford), and Susan Higgin, daughter of John Higgin of [Lancaster](/source/Lancaster%2C_Lancashire), and had ten full brothers and sisters;[Richard Eustre, Susan Edith, John Eardley, [Oswald](/source/Oswald_Wardell-Yerburgh), Mary Florence, Edmond Rochfort, Rachel, Harry Beauchamp, Lucy Isabel, and Charlotte Elizabeth.] by his father's second marriage in 1863 he had two half-sisters, Annie Constance and Mabel Stanley.[''[Burke's Peerage](/source/Burke's_Peerage)'', volume 1 (1999), p. 66] He was educated at [Rossall School](/source/Rossall_School) and [Harrow School](/source/Harrow_School). He matriculated at [University College, Oxford](/source/University_College%2C_Oxford) in 1873, graduating B.A. at [St Alban Hall](/source/St_Alban_Hall) in 1877. He was [called to the bar](/source/called_to_the_bar) at the [Middle Temple](/source/Middle_Temple) in 1880.[{{alox2|title=Yerburgh, Robert Armstrong}}][{{cite ODNB|id=52367|first=Simon|last=Harrison|title=Yerburgh, Robert Armstrong (1853–1916)}}]
==Career==
Yerburgh went the northern circuit as a barrister. In 1886, after losing the previous year to [Walter Foster](/source/Walter_Foster%2C_1st_Baron_Ilkeston), he was elected to the [House of Commons](/source/House_of_Commons_of_the_United_Kingdom) for [Chester](/source/Chester_(UK_Parliament_constituency)), standing for the [Unionists](/source/Conservative_Party_(UK)). He lost the seat in 1906, but was elected again in 1910.[{{cite book |last1=Pratt |first1=Edwin A. |title=Agricultural organisation, its rise, principles and practice abroad and at home |date=1912 |publisher=London : King |page=10 |url=https://archive.org/details/agriculturalorg00prat/page/n10/mode/1up}}][{{cite book |title=Labour Copartnership |date=1896 |page=214 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ecs7AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA214 |language=en}}] He acted as president of the National Agricultural Union, and in 1901 introduced a motion in the House of Commons on the [food security](/source/food_security) of the United Kingdom, about which he had grave concerns.[{{cite book |last1=French |first1=David |title=British Economic and Strategic Planning: 1905-1915 |date=5 November 2013 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-136-60827-8 |page=18 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eiD8AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA18 |language=en}}] When William Lancelot Charleton of [Newark](/source/Newark-on-Trent) set up the British Agricultural Organisation Society, in 1901, to promote [co-operative](/source/co-operative)s on a model used already by the [Irish Agricultural Organisation Society](/source/Irish_Agricultural_Organisation_Society) he became its president.[{{cite book |last1=Bonner |first1=Arnold |title=British Co-operation: The History, Principles and Organisation of the British Co-Operative Movement |date=1970 |publisher=Co-operative Union |location=Manchester |isbn=978-0-85195-031-0 |page=414 |language=en}}]
==Private life==
In 1888 Yerburgh married [Elma Amy](/source/Elma_Yerburgh), a daughter of [Daniel Thwaites](/source/Daniel_Thwaites),[{{Cite web |title=Daniel Thwaites & Co. Ltd Round Tin {{!}} Brewery Trays |url=https://brewerytrays.co.uk/wp/product/daniel-thwaites-co-ltd-round-tin-3/ |access-date=2025-05-09 |language=en-US}}] They had two sons. Their younger son, [Robert](/source/Robert_Yerburgh%2C_1st_Baron_Alvingham), also became a Conservative politician and was elevated to the peerage as [Baron Alvingham](/source/Baron_Alvingham) in 1929 (his older brother, Richard, having died in 1926). Elma Amy Yerburgh died in 1946.
==Coat of Arms==
Yerburgh’s armorial bearings were ''per pale argent and azure on a chevron between three chaplets all counterchanged an annulet for the difference and on an escutcheon of pretence the arms of Theaites namely ermine a cross engrailed sable fretty argent in the first and fourth quarter a chaplet of oak vert. The mantling is azure and argent. For a crest: on a wreath of the colours a falcon close or belled of the last preying upon a mallard proper.''[{{Cite book |last=Fox-Davies |first=Arthur |title=Armorial Families |publisher=TC & EC Jack |year=1899 |edition=3 |location=London |pages=912–913 |language=English}}]
The motto “who dares wins” was sometimes used alongside the arms described here.