Charles Duke Yonge

Charles Duke Yonge (November 30, 1812 – November 30, 1891) was a English historian, classicist, and cricketeer. He wrote numerous works of modern history, and translated several classical works.

He was born in Eton, Buckinghamshire. He attended Oxford University, where he played first-class cricket in 1836. Later he was the Regius Professor of Modern History at Queen's College, Belfast. He died in Belfast.

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The Life of Arthur, Duke of Wellington (1860)
The History of the British Navy: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time (1863)
The History of France Under the Bourbons, a.D. 1589-1830, (1866, 4 vols.)
Life and Administration of Robert Banks, Second Earl of Liverpool (3 vols., 1868)
The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France (1876)
The Constitutional History of England from 1760 to 1860 (1882)
Life of Sir Walter Scott
The History of England, from the Earliest Times to the Death of Viscount Palmerston, 1865
England's Great Generals: Sketches of the Lives of Duke of Marlborough, Lord Clive, Duke of Wellington, Sir Charles Napier, Lord Gough
Flowers of History, Especially Such As Relate to the Affairs of Britain
Seven Heroines of Christendom
Three Centuries of Modern History

Cicero, De Inventione (1853)
Cicero, The Nature of the Gods and on Divination (1853)
Cicero, The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero
Cicero, Tusculan Disputations: On the Nature of the Gods, And on the Commonwealth
Diogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
Philo of Alexandria, The Works of Philo: Complete and Unabridged (1854-55)

A phraseological English-Latin dictionary, for the use of Eton [and other schools] and King's College, London (1856)
An English-Greek lexicon

Letters of Horace Walpole, 2 vols.
Essays Of John Dryden
Three Centuries of English Literature
A gradus ad Parnassum: For the use of Eton, Westminster, Harrow, and Charterhouse schools, King's college, London, and Marlborough college (1850)