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Yonge, Philip, ca. 1711-1783
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ca. 1711-1783
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YONGE, PHILIP, son of Francis Yonge, Lisbon, Portugal, Commissary of the Ordnance duruing War of the Spanish Succession, subsequently London Agent for Plantation of South Carolina, and his first wife ---, widow of George Fletcher, Governor of Barbados; b.; adm. (aged 7) Sep 1718; Min. Can. 1724; KS 1725; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1728, adm. pens. 1 Jul 1728, scholar 2 May 1729, matr. 1728; BA 1731/2; MA 1735; DD 1750; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1734, Major Fellow 3 Jul 1735, Tutor 1738-50, Junior Bursar 1746-8, Junior Dean 1748/9; spoke the Latin oration at Bentley’s funeral in Trinity Coll. Chapel Jul 1742; Public Orator, Cambridge Univ. 18 Jun 1746-52; Master, Jesus Coll. Cambridge 1752-8; Vice-Chancellor, Cambridge Univ. 1753; managed the University of Cambridge for many years in the interest of Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle (qv) (Winstanley, Cambridge in the XVIIIth Century, passim); ordained deacon (Lincoln) 1 Jun 1735; Vicar of Barrington, Cambs., 1748; Prebendary of Westminster 2 Nov 1750; Chaplain in Ordinary to George II (occurs 1751-8); Rector of Loughton, Bucks., 3 Apr 1752; Prebendary of St. Paul’s 6 Apr 1754-61; Rector of Therfield, Herts., 5 Oct 1757-61; consecrated Bishop of Bristol 29 Jun 1758; translated to Norwich 25 Nov 1761; m. 15 Dec 1761 Anne, elder dau. of Calverley Bewicke, Clapham, Surrey; d. 23 Apr 1783.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.