Sir John Yonge, 1st Baronet
Noble person
1603 – 1663
Who was Sir John Yonge, 1st Baronet?
Sir John Yonge, 1st Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1642 and 1660.
Yonge was the son of Walter Yonge of Colyton and his wife Jane Peryan, daughter of Sir John Peryan. Yonge was a well established merchant and was knighted on 15 September 1625.
In 1642 Yonge was elected Member of Parliament for Plymouth, joining his father in the House of Commons. In December 1648 he was one of the members excluded in Pride's Purge, but returned in the Parliaments of the Protectorate, sitting for Honiton in 1654 and Devon in 1656. In 1660, he was again chosen MP for Honiton in the Convention Parliament.
After the Restoration, Yonge was created a baronet of Culliton on 26 September 1661. He died two years later at the age of 59.
Yonge married Elizabeth Strode and had two sons and a daughter. His son Walter succeeded to the baronetcy.
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