Charles Duke Yonge

Charles Duke Yonge (November 30, 1812 – November 30, 1891) was an English historian, classicist and cricketer. He wrote numerous works of modern history, and translated several classical works. His younger brother was Gerald Yonge.

Life

He was born in Eton, Buckinghamshire. He attended Oxford University, where he played first-class cricket in 1836. Later he was the Regius Professor of Modern History at Queen's College, Belfast. He died in Belfast.

Works

• The Life of Arthur, Duke of Wellington (1860)
• The History of the British Navy: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time (1863)
• The History of France Under the Bourbons, a.D. 1589-1830, (1866, 4 vols.)
• Life and Administration of Robert Banks, Second Earl of Liverpool (3 vols., 1868)
• The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France (1876)
• The Constitutional History of England from 1760 to 1860 (1882)
• Life of Sir Walter Scott
• The History of England, from the Earliest Times to the Death of Viscount Palmerston, 1865
• England's Great Generals: Sketches of the Lives of Duke of Marlborough, Lord Clive, Duke of Wellington, Sir Charles Napier, Lord Gough
• Flowers of History, Especially Such As Relate to the Affairs of Britain
• Seven Heroines of Christendom
• Three Centuries of Modern History

Translations

• Cicero, De Inventione (1853)
• Cicero, The Nature of the Gods and on Divination (1853)
• Cicero, The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero (1888)
• Cicero, Tusculan Disputations: On the Nature of the Gods, And on the Commonwealth
• Diogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
• Philo of Alexandria, The Works of Philo: Complete and Unabridged (1854-55)

Dictionaries

• A phraseological English-Latin dictionary, for the use of Eton [and other schools] and King's College, London (1856)
• An English-Greek lexicon

Editor

• Letters of Horace Walpole, 2 vols.
• Essays Of John Dryden
• Three Centuries of English Literature
• A gradus ad Parnassum: For the use of Eton, Westminster, Harrow, and Charterhouse schools, King's college, London, and Marlborough college (1850)

External links

•  "Yonge, Charles Duke". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. 
• The Online Books Page
• Works by Charles Duke Yonge at Project Gutenberg
• "Charles Yonge - England Cricket". ESPNcricinfo.com.