Philip Yonge

Francis Yonge was Commissary of the Ordnance during the War of the Spanish Succession, and later the London agent for South Carolina.

[1] He was master of Jesus College, Cambridge (1752–58) and also a canon of Westminster Abbey (1750–1754) and a prebendary of St. Paul's Cathedral (1754–1761).

The diarist Sylas Neville, who was a dissenter, attended a service at Norwich Cathedral on Friday 21 August 1772, and recorded in his diary: Heard an inanimate sermon at the Cathedral by Dr. Philip Yonge, Bishop of this Diocese for the benefit of the Norfolk Hospital.

[3] While Prayers were reading, he often lifted up his hand, as if joining in the petitions, in the most formal manner.

[4] In 1761 Yonge married Anne, daughter of Calverley Bewicke of Clapham.