James Yonge ( 1647 - 1721 )

Birth: Plymouth, Devon, England (27 February 1647) Death: 25 July 1721 Burial: St Andrews Church, Plymouth, Devon Profession: Surgeon; Physician Education: Grammar School at Plymouth; apprenticed to Sylvester Richmond of Liverpool, surgeon to the ship-of-war 'Constant Warwick' (1657); ?Leyden (admitted 1702) Career: Surgeon's mate to the 'Montague' (1661-1662); assistant to Mr Clark, a surgeon-apothecary in Wapping, London (1662); assisted in his father's practice (1663); travelled to Newfoundland as surgeon of the 'Reformation' (1663); visited the west coast of Africa and the Mediterranean in the 'Bonaventure' (1664); captured by the Dutch and held prisoner in Amsterdam (1665-1666); practised in Plymouth (1666-1668); returned to Newfoundland (1668-1670); left the Navy and settled in Plymouth, where he practised as a surgeon and later as a physician (1670); Surgeon, Naval Hospital, Plymouth; Deputy Surgeon-General to the Navy (1674); visited London, where he met several Fellows of the Royal Society (1678); Surgeon to Lord Bath's Regiment of Militia (1685-1689); embalmed the body of Sir Cloudesley Shovell nine days after his death on the 'Association' (1707) Memberships: Company of Barber-Surgeons (1692); Extra LRCP (1702) Membership: Fellow Election Date: 30/11/1702.