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Charles Duke Yonge

English historian, classicist, and cricketer (1812-1891) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Charles Duke Yonge (30 November 1812 – 30 November 1891)[1] was an English historian, classicist and cricketer. He wrote numerous works of modern history, and translated several classical works. His younger brother was George Edward Yonge.

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Biography

Charles Duke Yonge was born in Eton, Berkshire on 30 November 1812.[1] He was baptised on 25 December 1812. He was the eldest of eight children to the Reverend Charles Yonge (1781–1830) and Elizabeth Lord (?–1868). His parents married on 4 December 1811. His grandparents were Duke Yonge and Catherine Crawley on his father's side, and Joseph Lord and Corbetta Owen of Pembroke South Wales on his mother's side.[2][better source needed]

He was educated at Eton College. At age eighteen, he became a foundation scholar at King's College, Cambridge between 1831 and 1833.

On 17 May 1834, he attended St. Mary's Hall, Oxford, a dependency of and later incorporated into Oriel College. He graduated with a first-class honours B.A. in Classics in December 1834. In 1874, he acquired his M.A. from Keble College. He was a professor of history and English literature at Queen's College, Belfast from 1866. He died 30 November 1891 and was buried in Belfast.[1]

As a cricket player, during the 1836 season for Oxford University, he scored a total of 85 runs in three matches and caught one player out.[3]

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Works

  • Parallel Lives of Ancient and Modern Heroes, of Epaminondas and Gustavus Adolphus; Philip of Macedon and Frederic the Great (1858)
  • The Life of Arthur, Duke of Wellington (1860)
  • The History of the British Navy: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time (1863)
  • The History of England, from the Earliest Times to the Death of Viscount Palmerston, 1865
  • The History of France Under the Bourbons, a.D. 1589–1830, (1866, 4 vols.)
  • Life and Administration of Robert Banks, Second Earl of Liverpool (3 vols., 1868)
  • The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France (1876)
  • Our Great Naval Commanders Drake, Blake, Cook, Rodney, Nelson, Parry (C 1880 second edition 1886 - Swan Sonnenschein, Le Bas & Lowrey "
  • The Constitutional History of England from 1760 and 1860 (1882)
  • Life of Sir Walter Scott
  • England's Great Generals: Sketches of the Lives of Duke of Marlborough, Lord Clive, Duke of Wellington, Sir Charles Napier, Lord Gough
  • Flowers of History, Especially Such As Relate to the Affairs of Britain
  • Seven Heroines of Christendom
  • Three Centuries of Modern History

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Dictionaries

  • A phraseological English-Latin dictionary, for the use of Eton [and other schools] and King's College, London (1856)
  • An English-Greek lexicon

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