GEMMS IDGEMMS-PERSON-002316
NameWalter Yonge
TitleMr
Gendermale
Denomination
Livedb. ca. 1579-04-16 - d. ca. 1649-11-26 (old)
Linked Manuscriptsmanuscript owner - Journals of proceedings in the House of Commons, and of public events in England, Vol. I.: Add MS 18777
Linked SermonsSermon on Nehemiah 4:11 -- auditor (autograph: no)
Linked Reports
Source of DataDavid Robinson
Biographical Sources ConsultedODNB
Other NoteBaptized 16 April 1579, the second son of John Yonge, an overseas merchant, and his wife Alice. Matriculated from Magdalen College, Oxford in 1599; entered the Middle Temple the following year and was called to the bar. Married Jane, daughter of Sir John Peryam of Exeter, 6 February 1600, with whom he had two sons and a daughter. He lived first at Upton Helions, Devon before inheriting his fathers estate at Colyton, Devon in 1612. He continued his father's interest in overseas trade, investing in 1624 in the Dorchester Company to establish profitable and godly colonies in New England. Served as CP of County Devon from 1622-1649; sherrif of Devon in 1628; quarter-master general of the Devon militia, 1635. MP for Honiton, 1640-1645. Although he published a manual of parliamentary statutes for justices in 1642 (A Justice of the Peace, his Vade-Mecum), he remains most famous for his extensive diaries which he kept from the 1620s to his death in November 1649. Buried at Colyton 26 November.
GEMMS record createdFebruary 19, 2019
GEMMS record last editedFebruary 22, 2019