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The Right Honourable Sir George Yonge (1731–1812), Secretary at War, Knight of the Bath, One of his Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council—the man after whom Yonge Street was named was a Baronet, a member of the British Parliament and Governor of the Cape of Good Hope. He was the fifth baronet in his line but, as the Dictionary of National Biography puts it, “as he left no issue, the baronetcy became extinct”.

Heraldic escutcheon below, 4 quarters: 1: Ermine, on a bend cotised sable three griffin's heads erased or (Yonge); 2: Gules, a chevron ermine between three Saxon's heads couped proper (Williams of Penrhyn, heiress wife of 3rd Baronet); 3: Gules, on a bend between six cross-crosslets fitchy argent an escutcheon or charged with a demi-lion rampant pierced through the mouth by an arrow within a double tressure flory counterflory of the first (Howard, with augmentation of honour) (Howard of Effingham, for his mother, an heraldic heiress); 4: Gules, a chevron engrailed or between three lion's faces of the last (Peryam), for Jane Peryam, a daughter and co-heiress of John Peryam (1541 – c. 1618), of Exeter, Devon, four times a Member of Parliament, for Barnstaple 1584, Bossiney 1586, Exeter 1589 and 1593, Mayor of Exeter, younger brother of Sir William Peryam (1534-1604) of Little Fulford, near Crediton in Devon, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer. Jane Peryam was the wife of Walter Yonge (1579–1649) of Great House in the parish of Colyton, Devon, a lawyer, merchant and notable diarist, ancestor of the 5th Baronet.

Creator: Edmund Scott Date: 1790 Identifier: JRR 4025 Cab II Format: Picture Rights: Public domain Courtesy: Toronto Public Library.