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

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and

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er. He wrote numerous works of modern history, and translated several classical works. His younger brother was

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Biography

Charles Duke Yonge was born in

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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

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. At age eighteen, he became a foundation scholar at

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between 1831 and 1833. On 17 May 1834, he attended

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, a dependency of and later incorporated into

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. He graduated with a

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in Classics in December 1834. In 1874, he acquired his M.A. from

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. As a

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, 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

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, 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) * ''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

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, Sir Charles Napier,

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'' * ''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, ''

The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers Diogenes Laërtius ( ; grc-gre, Διογένης Λαέρτιος, ; ) was a biographer of the Ancient Greece, Greek philosophers. Nothing is definitively known about his life, but his surviving ''Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers'' is a ...

'' (1853) *

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, ''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'', 2 vols. * ''Essays Of

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'' * ''Three Centuries of English Literature'' * ''A

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: For the use of Eton, Westminster, Harrow, and Charterhouse schools, King's college, London, and Marlborough college'' (1850)

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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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