Charles Duke Yonge

Charles Duke Yonge (30 November 1812 – 30 November 1891) 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

Charles Duke Yonge was born in Eton, Berkshire, on 30 November 1812. 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.

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.

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.