| 词条 | Sir George Yonge, 5th Baronet |
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Sir George Yonge, 5th Baronet (17 July 1731 – 25 September 1812), KCB, PC, of Escot House in the parish of Talaton in Devon, England, was a British Secretary at War (1782–1783 and 1783–1794). He succeeded to his father's baronetcy in 1755 which became extinct when he died without children. He is remembered by, among others, the name of Yonge Street, a principal road in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, so named in 1793 by the Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada John Graves Simcoe. BiographyYonge was born in 1731[1] at Great House in the parish of Colyton, Devon, the son and heir of Sir William Yonge, 4th Baronet (1693–1755) by his second wife Ann Howard.[2] He had a stepbrother, Walter Yonge, from his father's first wife Mary Heathcote. He was educated at Eton College and then at the University of Leipzig.[3] He served as a Member of Parliament for his family's Rotten Borough of Honiton, Devon, from 1754 to 1761 and again from 1763 to 1796. He was quoted to have often said that he had inherited £80,000 from his father, acquired another £80,000 when he married and £80,000 from Parliament but Honiton had "swallowed it all," This was due to the huge briberies which were commonplace to influence the electorate in rotten borough elections of the time. Yonge was appointed to the Privy Council of the United Kingdom in 1782, and acted as Governor of the Cape Colony for a short period from 1799 to 1801. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1784 [4] and was invested as a Knight of the Bath in 1788. In 1755 he inherited Escot House near Ottery St Mary, Devon, on the death of his father and in 1794 sold it for £26,000 to Sir John Kennaway, 1st Baronet, under whose occupancy it burnt down in 1808. When George died, indebted, on 25 September 1812 at Hampton Court the baronetcy died with him.[3] Initially he was interred at the place of his death but his remains were later exhumed and transported by sea to be laid to rest in the family crypt in the parish of Colyton. The re-burial was reputed to have taken place by night in fear that his creditors may seize the body. FamilyGeorge Yonge married Ann Cleeve, daughter and sole heir of Bourchier Cleeve, on 10 July 1765.[5] George was then 34 years old and Ann 20 or perhaps just 21. Ann's father, two days before his death, changed his will[6][7] to place restrictions on Ann's inheritance should she marry someone whom her mother deemed inappropriate. Whether this occurred is not clear. Ann had no children. She died at Hampton on 7 January 1833.[8] There is great confusion in many sources, both online and in print, that give George Yonge's wife's name as Elizabeth. This seems to be a mistake. For a discussion, see the talk page. LegacyYonge was considered an expert on Roman roads: 'He was a man of letters, an F.R.S., and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, to which he communicated an excellent memoir on the subject of Roman roads and camps, in connection with some discoveries that had been made at Mansfied, in Nottinghamshire, and hence the peculiar fitness of naming Yonge Street after him, it being precisely such a road, and adapted to similar uses, as those he had been engaged in examining.'[9] Yonge Street, the main north-south street of Toronto, was built between 1795 and 1796 from Eglinton Avenue to Lake Simcoe. Later the road was extended south to Bloor Street and still later, south to Lake Ontario. Yonge Mills Road and Townline Road Escott Yonge in Front of Yonge Township in Mallorytown, Ontario are named for him as well. References{{Rayment-bt|date=March 2012}}1. ^Other sources give 1732: {{cite journal|last=Scadding|first=Henry|title=Yonge Street and Dundas Street: The Men after whom they were named|journal=The Canadian Journal of Science, Literature and History|date=January 1878|volume=15|issue=8|page=616|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/96851#page/596/mode/1up|accessdate=6 May 2013}} 2. ^http://thepeerage.com/p22037.htm#i220362 3. ^1 http://edrh.rhpl.richmondhill.on.ca/default.asp?ID=s1.4 4. ^{{cite web | url = http://www2.royalsociety.org/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=2&dsqSearch=%28Surname%3D%27yonge%27%29| title = Library and Archive catalogue| publisher = Royal Society|accessdate = 2012-02-27}} 5. ^{{cite web|last1=Namier|first1=Lewis|title=The House of Commons 1754-1790|url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Taw7DVGrbRcC&dq=%22george+yonge%22+cleeve&source=gbs_navlinks_s|date=1985}} 6. ^{{cite web|title=Bourchier Cleeve Will at the National Archives|url=http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D469917}} 7. ^{{cite web|title=Bourchier Cleeve's Will Transcript|url=http://village.eversholt.org.uk/eversholt-history/people/anne-amelia-cleeve/bourchier-cleeve/}} 8. ^{{cite web|title=Morning Post|url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results/1833-01-01/1833-01-31?basicsearch=%2byonge&freesearch=yonge&exactsearch=true&retrievecountrycounts=false&sortorder=dayearly|date=1833-01-15}} 9. ^{{cite book |title=Engineering |url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=ZJhDAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA389 |year=1879 |publisher=Office for Advertisements and Publication |page=389}} External links
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