Person Yonge; James (1647 - 1721) Yonge James Young 1647 - 1721 Male Plymouth, Devon, England 27 February 1647 25 July 1721 Burial: St Andrews Church, Plymouth, Devon

Plymouth (1718)

Surgeon; Physician 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) 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 Fellow 30/11/1702 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 International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 27 Feb 1647 - 25 Jul 1721 NA860 21/11/2001 Andyg Martind 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes 1466343b-71ca-4e8b-a6c7-6cba3d190b6c