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.