Philip Yonge
Philip Yonge DD (1709 – 23 April 1783) was a British clergyman. He was appointed Bishop of Bristol in 1758 and translated to become Bishop of Norwich in 1761; he died in that office in 1783.
Yonge was the son of Francis and Elizabeth Yonge. Francis Yonge was
The diarist Sylas Neville, who was a dissenter, attended a service at Norwich Cathedral on Friday 21 August 1772, and recorded in his diary:
Heard an inanimate sermon at the Cathedral by Dr. Philip Yonge, Bishop of this Diocese for the benefit of the
In 1761 Yonge married Anne, daughter of Calverley Bewicke of Clapham. He died in his house in Upper Grosvenor Street, Mayfair on 23 April 1783 and was buried in the Grosvenor Chapel in Mayfair.[5]
Yonge's contemporaries in Norwich regarded him as extraordinarily idle.[6]
References
- ^ "Yonge, Philip (YN728P)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ The hospital had been founded the previous year."Take Heart: Early Norfolk and Norwich". Retrieved 1 January 2021.
- ^ The verse is from Proverbs 22:2."Proverbs 22:2". Retrieved 1 January 2021.
- ^ Neville, Sylas, The Diary of Sylas Neville, 1767-1788 (edited by Cozens-Hardy, Basil), (1950: OUP), p 175.
- ^ "Yonge of Caynton House and the U.S.A." Retrieved 16 September 2009.
- ^ Atherton, Ian, Norwich Cathedral: church, city, and diocese, 1096-1996, (1996: Hambledon)
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