Charles Duke Yonge
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
- Letters of Horace Walpole, 2 vols.
- Essays Of John Dryden
- Three Centuries of English Literature
- A 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.
External links
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- Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. .
- Works by Charles Duke Yonge at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Charles Duke Yonge at Internet Archive
- Works by Charles Duke Yonge at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- The Online Books Page