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.

Charles Duke Yonge was born in Eton, Berkshire on 30 November 1812. He was baptised on 25 December 1812. He was the eldest of eight children to the Reverend Charles Yonge (1781-1830) and Elizabeth Lord (?-1868). His parents married on 4 December 1811. His grandparents were Duke Yonge and Catherine Crawley on his father's side, and Joseph Lord and Corbetta Owen of Pembroke South Wales on his mother's side.

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 St. Mary's Hall, Oxford, a dependency of and later incorporated into Oriel College. He graduated with a first-class honours B.A. in Classics in December 1834. In 1874, he acquired his M.A. from Keble College.

As a cricket player, during the 1836 season for Oxford University, he scored a total of 85 runs in three matches and caught one player out.

Like many young men at University he overspent his allowance. By 1837, his financial difficulties had caught up with him, and was taken to a debtors court. The court report reads:

"The insolvent is a young man. He as described in his Schedule as of Eton, of St Mary’s Hall Oxford, of Longs Hotel, of the Brunswick Hotel, of the Union Hotel, of Meurices Hotel Paris and of Proctors Hotel Westminster Road, at which last place he was known as Charles Duke. His debts amount to 2290l, contracted from 1834 and 1837. The insolvent had taken his degree at Oxford and had been a first class man. His means of support at the time the debts had been contacted had been derived from his Mother, who resides at Eton, and who allowed him 240l per annum. The creditors of the insolvent were persons in trade in Oxford and in London – a horse dealer, jewellers, wine merchants, tailors etc etc. The cause of the insolvency was attributed to the expenses of the Insolvent exceeding his income.

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