The Great House, South Street, Colyton - geograph

Sir Walter Yonge, 2nd Baronet (c. 1625 – 21 November 1670) of

Great House A great house is a large house or mansion with luxurious appointments and great retinues of indoor and outdoor staff. The term is used mainly historically, especially of properties at the turn of the 20th century, i.e., the late Victorian or ...

, Colyton, and of

Mohuns Ottery Mohuns Ottery or Mohun's Ottery ( "moon's awtrey"),Gover, J.E.B., Mawer, A. & Stenton, F.M. (1931). ''The Place-Names of Devon''. English Place-Name Society. Vol viii. Part II. Cambridge University Press. p.642 is a house and historic manor in ...

, both in Devon, was a

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for

Honiton Honiton ( or ) is a market town and civil parish in East Devon, situated close to the River Otter, north east of Exeter in the county of Devon. Honiton has a population estimated at 11,822 (based on mid-year estimates for the two Honiton Ward ...

(1659), for

Lyme Regis Lyme Regis is a town in west Dorset, England, west of Dorchester and east of Exeter. Sometimes dubbed the "Pearl of Dorset", it lies by the English Channel at the Dorset–Devon border. It has noted fossils in cliffs and beaches on the Heri ...

(1660) and for Dartmouth (1667–70).

Origins

Yonge was the son and heir of Sir John Yonge, 1st Baronet (1603–1663), of Colyton by his wife Elizabeth Strode, daughter of Sir

William Strode William Strode (1598 – 9 September 1645) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1624 and 1645. He was one of the Five Members whose impeachment and attempted unconstitutional arrest by King Charles I in ...

(1562–1637) of Newnham

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''The Baronetage of England: or The History of the English baronets, Volume 2''
/ref> in the parish of Plympton St Mary, Devon, seven times a

, for

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in 1597 and 1624, for

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in 1601, 1604, 1621 and 1625, and for Plymouth in 1614,

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1593-4 and Deputy Lieutenant of Devon in 1599.

Career

He was educated in Leyden and the Inner Temple. In 1659 he was elected

for

, Devon, and in 1660 for

, Dorset, in the Convention Parliament. He inherited the

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on the death of his father in 1663. In 1667 he was elected MP for Dartmouth in Devon, and sat until his death in 1670. He purchased the manor of

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 Escot, 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 Escot in the parish of Talaton, near Ottery St Mary in Devon, is an historic estate. The present mansion house known as Escot House is a grade II listed building built in 1837 by Sir John Kennaway, 3rd Baronet to the design of Henry Roberts, ...

in the parish of Talaton, Devon.

Marriage and children

In 1649 Yonge married Isabel Davie (died 1673), daughter of

Sir John Davie, 1st Baronet Sir John Davie, 1st Baronet (1588–1654) of Creedy in the parish of Sandford, near Crediton, Devon, was a member of the Devonshire gentry and served as Member of Parliament for Tiverton in 1621-2 and as Sheriff of Devon (1629–1630). He was ...

(-1654) of Creedy in the parish of Sandford, Devon, MP for Tiverton 1621–22 and

(1629–30). By his wife he had four sons and nine daughters including:Vivian, pp. 840–1 *John Yonge (1651–1668) eldest son and

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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

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(1652–1733),

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of the manor of Otterton, 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