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James Yonge (27 February 1646/47 – 25 July 1721) was a naval surgeon from Plymouth, England. The son of a Plymouth surgeon, Yonge went to sea with the Royal Navy as an apprentice surgeon as a young boy. Later he went on several voyages with the Newfoundland fishing fleets. In his twenties he set up in practice in Plymouth and over the years became prosperous. Yonge was elected Fellow of the Royal Society and Mayor of Plymouth. He wrote medical text books and a journal of his life. == Background == Little is known of the forbears of James Yonge. His father John was a surgeon in the Plymouth area, of unclear origins of his father are not clear. He may have come from Ireland and been part of the Protestant ascendancy; Yonge refers in his Journal〔Journal of James Yonge - Plymouth and West Devon Record Office〕 to visiting his grandmother in Cork. The accounts in ''Burke's Landed Gentry'', that he was a descendant of the Yonges of Colyton in Devon, are unfounded. His mother Joanna Blackaller (1618–1700) was the daughter of Nicholas Blackaller of Dartmouth, Devon, England. The Blackallers were merchants. His parents were married in St Savours, Dartmouth in September 1640.〔Devon Parish Registers Devon Record Office Exeter〕 By the time Yonge was born, his parents were living in Plymouth, England. He was baptised in the Parish Church of St Andrew, Plymouth, England on 11 March 1647.〔 Yonge was the fifth of seven children, all of whom survived at least to early adulthood. There is a family story of a quarrel with his brother Nathaniel, who unlike Yonge was not a royalist. There is evidence that they did not get on in Yonge's ''Journal''.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「James Yonge (surgeon)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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