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Sir Walter Yonge, 2nd Baronet (c. 1625 – 21 November 1670) of Great House, Colyton, and of Mohuns Ottery, both in Devon, was a Member of Parliament for Honiton (1659), for Lyme Regis (1660) and for

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(1667–70).

Origins

Yonge was the son and heir of

Sir John Yonge, 1st Baronet Sir John Yonge, 1st Baronet (2 October 1603 – 26 August 1663) of Great House in the parish of Colyton in Devon, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1642 and 1660. Yonge was the son of Walter Yonge of C ...

(1603–1663), of Colyton by his wife Elizabeth Strode, daughter of Sir William Strode (1562–1637) of Newnham William Betham
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Plympton St Mary Plympton is a suburb of the city of Plymouth in Devon, England. It is in origin an ancient stannary town. It was an important trading centre for locally mined tin, and a seaport before the River Plym silted up and trade moved down river to ...

, Devon, seven times a Member of Parliament, for Devon in 1597 and 1624, for Plympton Erle in 1601, 1604, 1621 and 1625, and for

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in 1614, Sheriff of Devon 1593-4 and Deputy Lieutenant of Devon in 1599.

Career

He was educated in Leyden and the Inner Temple. In 1659 he was elected Member of Parliament for Honiton, Devon, and in 1660 for Lyme Regis, Dorset, in the Convention Parliament. He inherited the baronetcy on the death of his father in 1663. In 1667 he was elected MP for

in Devon, and sat until his death in 1670. He purchased the manor of Mohuns Ottery intending to move there from Colyton, but died before his planned new mansion house there was completed. According to the Devon historian Polwhele (died 1838), he "had begun to build a seat at the ancient mansion of Mohuns Ottery in the parish of Luppitt, near Ottery, but Sir Walter Yonge, taking a liking to the situation of

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, purchased it and immediately began to build the present seat". This was his son and heir Sir Walter Yonge, 3rd Baronet (1653–1731), who in about 1680 built Escot House in the parish of

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, Devon.

Marriage and children

In 1649 Yonge married Isabel Davie (died 1673), daughter of Sir John Davie, 1st Baronet (-1654) of Creedy in the parish of Sandford, Devon, MP for Tiverton 1621–22 and Sheriff of Devon (1629–30). By his wife he had four sons and nine daughters including:Vivian, pp. 840–1 *John Yonge (1651–1668) eldest son and heir apparent who predeceased his father unmarried. * Sir Walter Yonge, 3rd Baronet (1653–1731), second and eldest surviving son and heir. *Francis Yonge (1655–1673), third sonVivian, p.841 *Charles Yonge (born 1658), fourth son *Isabella Yonge (born 1650), who married Richard Duke (1652–1733), lord of the

manor of Otterton The Manor of Otterton was a medieval manor in East Devon, England. Descent of the manor The church at Otterton, dedicated to St Michael, belonged to the monastery of Mont Saint-Michel at the time of the Domesday Book in 1086. After passing throug ...

, Devon, four times MP for Ashburton, 1679, 1695, 1698 and 1701.

References

External links

Yonge family
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Yonge, Walter 1625 births 1670 deaths Baronets in the Baronetage of England English MPs 1660 English MPs 1661–1679 Members of the Parliament of England for Dartmouth