Charles Duke Yonge

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

classicist and cricketer. 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

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He was educated at Eton College. At age eighteen, he became a foundation scholar at King's College, Cambridge between 1831 and 1833.

On 17 May 1834, he attended

Keble College
.

As a

Oxford University, he scored a total of 85 runs in three matches and caught one player out.[2]

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, 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
  • England's Great Generals: Sketches of the Lives of
    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, De Inventione (1853)
  • Cicero, On the Laws[3]
  • Cicero, On the Republic[4]
  • 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
  • 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 [and other schools] and King's College, London (1856)
  • An English-Greek lexicon

Editor

References

  1. ^ "Biographies". www.yongefamily.info. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
  2. ^ "Home". espncricinfo.com.
  3. ^ The Ideas That Have Influenced Civilization, vol. III, pg. 228
  4. ^ The Ideas That Have Influenced Civilization, vol. III, pg. 241

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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