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John Yonge
John Yonge (c. 1465 – 25 April 1516), English ecclesiastic and diplomatist, was born at Upper Heyford, Oxfordshire, and educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford, where he became a fellow in 1485. Probably the son of John Yonge, Lord Mayor of London (elected 1466), he was ordained in 1500 and held several livings before receiving his first diplomatic mission to arrange a commercial treaty with the archduke of Austria in 1504, and in the Low Countries in 1506 in connection with the
Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada John Graves Simcoe.
Biography.
Yonge was born in 1731 at Great House in the parish of Colyton, Devon, the son and heir of Sir William Yonge, 4th Baronet (1693–1755) by his second wife Ann Howard. He had a stepbrother, Walter Yonge, from his father's first wife Mary Heathcote.
He was educated at Eton College and then at the University of Leipzig. 
He served as a Member of Parliament for his family's Rotten Borough of Honiton,