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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3105, 30 January 1879, Page 1

" Atticus," in the Melbourne Leaded, writes:—"So poor Eliot Yorke, the cbosen boon companion of the Duke of Edinburgh, is dead. He did not lire long to enjoy the fortune he received when he married the daughter of Sir Anthony de Kothschild. The union was not a happy one and Eliot Yorke didfnot, it is said, accord to his wife the attention which the dot she brought him deserved. He had his faults, but at all events he was generous, and this feature in his character stood out in great contrast to the parsimony of, his royal companion. It was Eliot Yorke who invented the story that the Prince of Wales, on beholding tor the first time the gilded figure of the Prince Consort uader the dome of the Albert Memorial in Hyde Park, threw up his hands alter the style of the late Charlei Mathews, exclaiming, 'My awful dad! * The story offended the Prince of Wales who never entertained very friendly feelings for his brother's protege, and Eliot Yorke had to apologize for the liberty he had taken of making the heir to the throne a butt for his okes."