Background
Yonge was a direct descendant of James Yonge (1646–1721). He was the fourth son of Duke Yonge, vicar of Otterton, Devonshire, and his wife Catherina, daughter of Thomas Crawley-Boevey of Flaxley Abbey, Gloucestershire.
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James Yonge
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Exeter College; Eton College.
Career
He was born in Devonshire in 1794, and educated at Eton and Exeter College, Oxford, where he graduated Bachelor of Arts on 13 May 1815, Master of Arts on 22 October 1817, Bachelor of Medicine on 8 June 1819, and Doctor of Medicine on 20 June 1821. He was elected a fellow of the College of Physicians of London on 30 September 1822, practised in Plymouth, was physician to the Devonshire and Cornwall Hospital, and was for many years one of the chief physicians of the west of England.
He died on 3 January 1870.
