The Yonge Baronetcy, of Culliton in the County of Devon, was a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 26 September 1661 for the merchant and Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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, John Yonge

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...

. He was succeeded by his son Walter, the second Baronet. He was also a Member of Parliament. His son, the third Baronet, sat in the House of Commons

British House of Commons

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 for more than a quarter of a century. On his death the title passed to his son, the fourth Baronet. He was also a politician and served as Secretary at War

Secretary at War

The Secretary at War was a political position in the English and later British government, with some responsibility over the administration and organization of the Army, but not over military policy. The Secretary at War ran the War Office. It was occasionally a cabinet level position, although...

. He is also remembered for his diaries. He was succeeded by his son, the fifth Baronet. Like his father he served as Secretary at War and was also Governor of the Cape Colony

Cape Colony

The Cape Colony, part of modern South Africa, was established by the Dutch East India Company in 1652, with the founding of Cape Town. It was subsequently occupied by the British in 1795 when the Netherlands were occupied by revolutionary France, so that the French revolutionaries could not take...

. The baronetcy became extinct on his death in 1812.

Walter Yonge of Colyton

Walter Yonge of Colyton

Walter Yonge of Colyton and Devon was an English lawyer, merchant and diarist.-Life:He was the ancestor of Sir George Yonge, and great-great-grandson of John Yonge of Colliton and Devon, a well known merchant in Elizabethan England....

, father of the first Baronet, was a lawyer, merchant and diarist. His great-great-grandfather John Yonge

John Yonge

John Yonge , 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...

 was an ecclesiastic and diplomat.

Yonge Baronets, of Culliton (1661)

• Sir John Yonge, 1st Baronet
  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...
  
   (1603-1663)
• Sir Walter Yonge, 2nd Baronet
  Sir Walter Yonge, 2nd Baronet
  Sir Walter Yonge, 2nd Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1660 and 1670....
  
   (c. 1625-1670)
• Sir Walter Yonge, 3rd Baronet
  Sir Walter Yonge, 3rd Baronet
  Sir Walter Yonge, 3rd Baronet of Colliton was the father of Sir William Yonge, 4th Baronet and great-grandson of Walter Yonge of Colyton....
  
   (1653-1731)
• Sir William Yonge, 4th Baronet (c. 1693-1755)
• Sir George Yonge, 5th Baronet (1731-1812)