Charles Duke Yonge (30 November 1812 – 30 November 1891) was an English historian,

classicist Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature and their related original languages, Ancient Greek and Latin. Cla ...

and

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by st ...

er. 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 Eton College () is a Public school (United Kingdom), public school in Eton, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1440 by Henry VI of England, Henry VI under the name ''Kynge's College of Our Ladye of Eton besyde Windesore'',Nevill, p. 3 ff. i ...

. At age eighteen, he became a foundation scholar at

King's College, Cambridge King's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Formally The King's College of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas in Cambridge, the college lies beside the River Cam and faces out onto King's Parade in the centre of the cit ...

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 Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature and their related original languages, Ancient Greek and Latin. Classics ...

in December 1834. In 1874, he acquired his M.A. from Keble College. As a cricket player, during the 1836 season for

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, he scored a total of 85 runs in three matches and caught one player out.

Works

* ''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 Marie Antoinette Josèphe Jeanne (; ; née Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna; 2 November 1755 – 16 October 1793) was the last queen of France before the French Revolution. She was born an archduchess of Austria, and was the penultimate child a ...

, Queen of France'' (1876) * ''The Constitutional History of England from 1760 and 1860'' (1882) * ''Life of

Sir Walter Scott Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832), was a Scottish novelist, poet, playwright and historian. Many of his works remain classics of European and Scottish literature, notably the novels '' Ivanhoe'', '' Rob Roy ...

'' * ''England's Great Generals: Sketches of the Lives of Duke of Marlborough, Lord Clive,

Duke of Wellington Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, (1 May 1769 – 14 September 1852) was an Anglo-Irish soldier and Tory statesman who was one of the leading military and political figures of 19th-century Britain, serving twice as prime minister ...

, 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 Marcus Tullius Cicero ( ; ; 3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, and academic skeptic, who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises that led to the esta ...

, ''De Inventione'' (1853) * Cicero, ''On the Laws'' * Cicero, ''On the Republic''''The Ideas That Have Influenced Civilization'', vol. III, pg. 241 * 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 Diogenes Laërtius ( ; grc-gre, Διογένης Λαέρτιος, ; ) was a biographer of the Greek philosophers. Nothing is definitively known about his life, but his surviving ''Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers'' is a principal sour ...

, '' The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers'' (1853) * Philo of Alexandria, ''The Works of Philo: Complete and Unabridged'' (1854–55)

Dictionaries

* ''A phraseological English-Latin dictionary, for the use of Eton nd other schoolsand King's College, London'' (1856) * ''An English-Greek lexicon''

Editor

* ''Letters of

Horace Walpole Horatio Walpole (), 4th Earl of Orford (24 September 1717 – 2 March 1797), better known as Horace Walpole, was an English writer, art historian, man of letters, antiquarian, and Whig politician. He had Strawberry Hill House built in Twi ...

'', 2 vols. * ''Essays Of

John Dryden '' John Dryden (; – ) was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who in 1668 was appointed England's first Poet Laureate. He is seen as dominating the literary life of Restoration England to such a point that the p ...

'' * ''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

References

Bibliography

*''The Ideas That Have Influenced Civilization in the Original Documents: Ten Volumes. Vol. III: The Roman World '' (Milwaukee: The Roberts-Manchester Publishing Co., 1901). Oliver J. Thatcher, PhD, Editor.

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