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

classicist Classics, also classical studies or Ancient Greek and Roman studies, is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, ''classics'' traditionally refers to the study of Ancient Greek literature, Ancient Greek and Roman literature and ...

and

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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 Eton ( ) is a town in Berkshire, England, on the opposite bank of the River Thames to Windsor, Berkshire, Windsor, connected to it by Windsor Bridge. The civil parish, which also includes the village of Eton Wick two miles west of the town, had ...

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

King's College, Cambridge King's College, formally The King's College of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas in Cambridge, is a List of colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college lies beside the River Cam and faces ...

between 1831 and 1833. On 17 May 1834, he attended St. Mary's Hall, Oxford, a dependency of and later incorporated into

Oriel College Oriel College () is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in Oxford, England. Located in Oriel Square, the college has the distinction of being the oldest royal foundation in Oxford (a title formerly claimed by University College, ...

. He graduated with a

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B.A. in

Classics Classics, also classical studies or Ancient Greek and Roman studies, is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, ''classics'' traditionally refers to the study of Ancient Greek literature, Ancient Greek and Roman literature and ...

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

Keble College Keble College () is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. Its main buildings are on Parks Road, opposite the University Museum and the University Parks. The college is bordered to the north by Keble Road, to ...

. He was a professor of history and English literature at

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from 1866. He died 30 November 1891 and was buried in Belfast. 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 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 (; ; Maria Antonia Josefa Johanna; 2 November 1755 – 16 October 1793) was the last List of French royal consorts, queen of France before the French Revolution and the establishment of the French First Republic. She was the ...

, Queen of France'' (1876) * ''Our Great Naval Commanders Drake, Blake, Cook, Rodney, Nelson, Parry'' (C 1880 second edition 1886 - Swan Sonnenschein, Le Bas & Lowrey " * ''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 and historian. Many of his works remain classics of European literature, European and Scottish literature, notably the novels ''Ivanhoe'' (18 ...

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

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, 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, orator, writer and Academic skeptic, who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises tha ...

, ''De Inventione'' (1853) * Cicero, ''On the Laws'' * Cicero, ''On the Republic'' * 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 ( ; , ; ) was a biographer of the Greek philosophers. Little is definitively known about his life, but his surviving book ''Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers'' is a principal source for the history of ancient Greek ph ...

, '' The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers'' (1853)
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*

Athenaeus of Naucratis Athenaeus of Naucratis (, or Nαυκράτιος, ''Athēnaios Naukratitēs'' or ''Naukratios''; ) was an ancient Greek rhetorician and grammarian, flourishing about the end of the 2nd and beginning of the 3rd century AD. The ''Suda'' says on ...

, ''

Deipnosophistae The ''Deipnosophistae'' (, ''Deipnosophistaí'', lit. , where ''sophists'' may be translated more loosely as ) is a work written in Ancient Greek by Athenaeus of Naucratis. It is a long work of Greek literature, literary, Ancient history, h ...

'' (''The Dinner-Table Philosophers'') (1854) *

Philo of Alexandria Philo of Alexandria (; ; ; ), also called , was a Hellenistic Jewish philosopher who lived in Alexandria, in the Roman province of Egypt. The only event in Philo's life that can be decisively dated is his representation of the Alexandrian Je ...

, ''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 Whig politician, writer, historian and antiquarian. He had Strawberry Hill House built in Twickenham, southwest London ...

'', 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 of the United Kingdom, Poet Laureate. He is seen as dominating the literary life of Restoration (En ...

'' * ''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

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