| Authorised form of name | Yonge; James (1647 - 1721) |
| Other forms of surname | Young |
| Dates | 1647 - 1721 |
| Place of birth | Plymouth, Devon, England |
| Date of birth | 27 February 1647 |
| Date of death | 25 July 1721 |
| Dates and places | Burial:
St Andrews Church, Plymouth, Devon |
| Occupation | Surgeon; Physician |
| Activity | Education:
Grammar School at Plymouth; apprenticed to Sylvester Richmond of Liverpool, surgeon to the ship-of-war 'Constant Warwick' (1657); ?Leyden (admitted 1702)
Career:
Surgeon's mate to the 'Montague' (1661-1662); assistant to Mr Clark, a surgeon-apothecary in Wapping, London (1662); assisted in his father's practice (1663); travelled to Newfoundland as surgeon of the 'Reformation' (1663); visited the west coast of Africa and the Mediterranean in the 'Bonaventure' (1664); captured by the Dutch and held prisoner in Amsterdam (1665-1666); practised in Plymouth (1666-1668); returned to Newfoundland (1668-1670); left the Navy and settled in Plymouth, where he practised as a surgeon and later as a physician (1670); Surgeon, Naval Hospital, Plymouth; Deputy Surgeon-General to the Navy (1674); visited London, where he met several Fellows of the Royal Society (1678); Surgeon to Lord Bath's Regiment of Militia (1685-1689); embalmed the body of Sir Cloudesley Shovell nine days after his death on the 'Association' (1707)
Memberships:
Company of Barber-Surgeons (1692); Extra LRCP (1702) |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 30/11/1702 |
| Relationships | Son of John Yonge, Surgeon, and his wife, Joanna, daughter of Nicholas Blackaller of Sharpham, Devon; married, Jane, daughter of Thomas Crampporne of Buckland Monachorum, Devon |
| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; Thomas; Munk's Roll; Innes Smith
Authority:
Altname from DNB
Notes:
Date of birth given in DNB appears to be incorrect |
| Royal Society code | NA860 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| EL/Y/1 | James Yonge, dated at Plymouth, to Robert Hooke | 6 January 1684 |
| EL/Y/2 | James Yonge, dated at Plymouth, to Dr Tyson | 6 September 1702 |