Yonge (George, Sir) Correspondence, 1750-1814

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Summary

Title:
Sir George Yonge correspondence
Dates:
1750-1814
Creators:
Yonge, George, Sir, 1731-1812
Abstract:
A collection of correspondence related to the career of Sir George Yonge, British Secretary at War.
Extent:
14.4 Linear Feet (12 boxes, 1 oversize folder)
Language:
Materials are in English.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item]. Sir George Yonge correspondence, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Background

Scope and content:

A collection of 850 items from 1750 to 1814, which contains correspondence from the War Office; the material was accumulated by Sir George Yonge during his term of office as Secretary at War from 1782 to 1794, together with some material of his predecessors and successors in office. The collection includes routine correspondence, consisting of letters regarding promotions, commissions, retirements, accounts, desertions, and troop movements. The papers contain many references to past service of officers in America, the West Indies, India, Gibraltar and elsewhere on the continent. Officials represented, in addition to Yonge, are: William Wildman Barrington, 2nd Viscount Barrington; Charles Jenkinson; William Windham; Sir James Murray-Pulteney, 7th Bart.; and Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston.

Biographical / historical:

Sir George Yonge (1731-1812) 5th Baronet, was a British Whig politician and Secretary at War from 1782 to 1794. Yonge was educated at Eton and Leipzig. From 1766 to 1770 Yonge was one of the Lords of the Admiralty and from April to July 1782 he was Vice-Treasurer for Ireland. He became Secretary at War from July 1782 to April 1783 and again from December 1783 to July 1794. Yonge became Master of the Mint and was appointed Governor of the Cape of New Hope until 1801. He died at Hampton Court at the age of eighty-one in 1812.

Acquisition information:
Purchased from G. Michelmore and Co., London, 1922.
Processing information:

Processed by Huntington Library Staff, circa 1925. In 2021, Gayle Richardson created the finding aid derived from a legacy summary report.

Arrangement:

Arranged chronologically.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Gayle Richardson
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2022-05-31 15:18:55 -0700 .

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Preferred citation:

[Identification of item]. Sir George Yonge correspondence, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Location of this collection:
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108, US
Contact:
(626) 405-2191
reference@huntington.org
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