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About Sir George Yonge, 5th Baronet
Sir George Yonge, 5th Baronet, KCB, PC, FRS was a British politician and colonial administrator who served as Secretary at War from 1782 to 1783 and again from 1783 to 1794. He succeeded to his father's baronetcy in 1755, which became extinct when he died without children. Yonge is remembered by, among other things, the name of Yonge Street, a principal road in what is now Toronto, Canada, so named in 1793 by the Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada, John Graves Simcoe.
Everything about Sir George Yonge, 5th Baronet →- Occupation
- politician, mintmaster
- Position held
- member of the 11th Parliament of Great Britain, member of the 12th Parliament of Great Britain, member of the 13th Parliament of Great Britain, member of the 14th Parliament of Great Britain
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- Born
- 1731
- Died
- September 25, 1812, September 12, 1812