Charles Duke Yonge
English historian, classicist, and cricketer (1812-1891)
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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.
Charles Duke Yonge | |
|---|---|
| Born | 30 November 1812 |
| Died | 30 November 1891 (aged 79) |
Burial place | Belfast |
| Education | |
| Employer | Queen's College, Belfast |
| Spouse |
Anne Bethell (m. 1837) |
| Relatives | George Edward Yonge (brother) |
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]
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
Translations
- 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) (1, 2, 3)
- Athenaeus of Naucratis, Deipnosophistae (The Dinner-Table Philosophers) (1854)
- Philo of Alexandria, The Works of Philo: Complete and Unabridged (1854–55)
Dictionaries
- A phraseological English-Latin dictionary, for the use of Eton [and other schools] and King's College, London (1856)
- An English-Greek lexicon
Editor
- 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
