Author: Yonge, Duke John
Biography:
YONGE, Duke John (1809-46: ancestry.co.uk)
pseudonym Launcelot Pendennis
He was born on 9 Mar. 1809, the eldest son of the Rev. Duke Yonge (1779-1836), Vicar of Antony, Cornwall, and his wife Cordelia Anne Colborne, who had married at Barkway, Herts., in 1806. His father had been educated at Eton and King’s College, Cambridge. He was educated at Eton and Oriel (matric. 1827) and later New Inn Hall (BA 1836). He entered the church and was Curate at Maperton, Somerset; Perpetual Curate of All Saints, Little Bolton, Lancs.; and from 1836 minister of the Episcopal Chapel in Alloa, Scotland. He married Elizabeth [Eliza Ann] Roberts on 21 Jan. 1840 at St. Andrews, Plymouth. They had three sons. He accidentally shot himself in the foot while cleaning his gun and died of lockjaw on 9 Jan. 1846. His wife remarried in 1851 and emigrated to Australia in 1856 with their sons. His Cornish Carelessness (1830) consisted of minor English poems and accomplished translations from Anacreon and Horace. (ancestry.co.uk 4 Sept. 2021; findmypast.co.uk 4 Sept. 2021; CCEd 4 Sept. 2021; Bibliotheca Cornubiensis 2: 915; West Country Poets 486-7; Exeter Flying Post 30 Jan. 1840; Glasgow Herald 19 Jan. 1846; GM Mar. 1846, 327) AA