Charles Duke Yonge

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.

Biography[edit]

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]

Works[edit]

• 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

Translations[edit]

• Cicero, De Inventione (1853)
• Cicero, On the Laws^[4]
• Cicero, On the Republic^[5]
• Cicero, The Nature of the Gods and on Divination (1853)
• Cicero, The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero (1888)
• Cicero, Tusculan Disputations: On the Nature of the Gods, And on the Commonwealth
• Diogenes Laërtius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (1853)
• Philo of Alexandria, The Works of Philo: Complete and Unabridged (1854–55)

Dictionaries[edit]

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

Editor[edit]

• Letters of Horace Walpole, 2 vols.
• Essays Of John Dryden
• Three Centuries of English Literature
• A gradus ad Parnassum: For the use of Eton, Westminster, Harrow, and Charterhouse schools, King's college, London, and Marlborough college (1850) Longmans

Notes[edit]

References[edit]

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Hamilton, Thomas (1900). "Yonge, Charles Duke". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 63. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 324.
• Thatcher, Oliver J., ed. (1901). The Ideas That Have Influenced Civilization in the Original Documents: Ten Volumes. Vol. III: The Roman World. Milwaukee: The Roberts-Manchester Publishing Co.

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