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See also:YONGE, See also:SIR See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM, See also:BART . (c. 1693-1755), See also:English
politician, was the son of Sir See also:Walter Yonge of Colyton, See also:Devon-See also:shire, and See also:great-great-See also:grandson of Walter Yonge of Colyton (?1581-1649), whose diaries (1604-45), more especially four volumes now in the See also:British Museum (Add. See also:MSS. 18777-18780), are valuable material for See also:history. In 1722 he was elected to See also:parliament as member for See also:Honiton; and he succeeded his See also:father, the third See also:baronet, in 1731. In the See also:House of See also:Commons he attached himself to the Whigs, and making himself useful to Sir See also:Robert See also:Walpole, was rewarded with a commissionership of the See also:treasury in 1724. See also:George II., who conceived a strong antipathy to Sir William, spoke of him as " Stinking Yonge "; but Yonge conducted himself so obsequiously that he obtained a commissionership of the See also:admiralty in 1728, was restored to the treasury in 1730, and in 1735 became secretary of See also:state for See also:war. He especially distinguished himself in his See also:defence of the See also:government against a hostile See also:motion by Pulteney in 1742. Making See also:friends with the -Pelhams, he was appointed See also:vice-treasurer of See also:Ireland in 1746; and, acting on the See also:committee of management for the See also:impeachment of See also:Lord See also:Lovat in 1747, he won the See also:applause of See also:Horace Walpole by moving that prisoners impeached for high See also:treason should be allowed the assistance of counsel. In 1748 he was elected F.R.S. He died at Escott, near Honiton, on the 10th of See also:August 1755. By his second wife, See also:Anne, daughter and coheiress of See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas, Lord See also:Howard of Effingham, he had two sons and six daughters. He enjoyed some reputation as a
versifier, some of his lines being even mistaken for the See also:work of See also:Pope, greatly to the disgust of the latter; and he wrote the lyrics incorporated in a comic See also:opera, adapted from See also:Richard See also:Brome's The Jovial See also:- CREW (sometimes explained as a sea term of Scandinavian origin, cf. O. Icel. kris, a swarm or crowd, but now regarded as a shortened form of accrue, accrewe, used in the 16th century in the sense of a reinforcement, O. Fr. acreue, from accrofire, to grow,
- CREW, NATHANIEL CREW, 3RD BARON (1633–1721)
Crew, which was produced at See also:Drury See also:Lane in 1730 and had a considerable See also:vogue.
His eldest son, SIR GEORGE YONGE (1731-1812), was member of parliament for Honiton continuously from 1754 to 1794, and held a number of different government appointments, becoming a lord of the admiralty (1766-70), vice-treasurer for Ireland (1782), secretary of state for war (1782-94, with an See also:interval from See also:April to See also:December 1783), See also:master of the See also:mint (1794-99). In 1799 he was appointed See also:governor of the Cape of See also:Good See also:Hope. Serious charges being brought against his See also:administration, which was marked by great lack of See also:judgment, he was re-called in 1801. He died on the 25th of See also:September 1812. The baronetcy became See also:extinct at his See also:death.
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