JOHN

See also:

• YONGE, CHARLOTTE MARY (1823--1901)
• JOHN YONGE (1467-1516)
• YONGE, SIR WILLIAM, BART

YONGE (1467-1516)  , English ecclesiastic and diplomatist, was born at Heyford, Oxfordshire, and educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford, where he became a fellow in 1485 . 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 connexion with the projected marriage between Henry VII. and Margaret of Savoy . In 15e7 he was made Master of the Rolls, and in the following year was employed in various diplomatic missions . He was one of the ambassadors who arranged the Holy League in 1513, and accompanied Henry VIII. during the ensuing' campaign . In 1514 he was made dean of York in succession to Wolsey, and in 1515 he was one of the commissioners for renewing the peace with Francis I . He died in London on the 25th of April 1516 . Yonge was on terms of intimate friendship with Dean Colet, and was a correspondent of Erasmus .