Philip Yonge DD (1709 – 23 April 1783) was a

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clergyman. He was appointed

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in 1758 and translated to become

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in 1761; he died in that office in 1783. Yonge was the son of Francis and Elizabeth Yonge. Francis Yonge was

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of the

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during the

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, and later the London agent for

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. Yonge was born in Lisbon in 1709. He was educated at

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and

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, and ordained in 1735. He was master of

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(1752–58) and also a canon of Westminster Abbey (1750–1754) and a prebendary of St. Paul's Cathedral (1754–1761). The diarist Sylas Neville, who was a dissenter, attended a service at

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on Friday 21 August 1772, and recorded in his diary: ' In 1761 Yonge married Anne, daughter of Calverley Bewicke of Clapham. He died in his house in Upper Grosvenor Street, Mayfair on 23 April 1783 and was buried in the

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in Mayfair. Yonge's contemporaries in Norwich regarded him as extraordinarily idle.Atherton, Ian, ''Norwich Cathedral: church, city, and diocese, 1096-1996'', (1996: Hambledon)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Yonge, Philip 1709 births 1783 deaths Bishops of Bristol Bishops of Norwich Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge People educated at Westminster School, London Masters of Jesus College, Cambridge 18th-century Church of England bishops Cambridge University Orators Vice-Chancellors of the University of Cambridge Canons of Westminster