YOUNGE, Hitch (?1688-1759), of Garlic Hill, London and Roehampton, Surr.

A wealthy merchant, engaged in the Spanish and Mediterranean trade, Younge supplied wheat to the Minorca garrison in 1734Cal. Treas. Bks. and Pprs. 1735-8, pp. 31, 122. and was the banker and London agent to Benjamin Keene (q.v.).Private Corresp. of Sir Benjamin Keene, ed. Lodge, 34-35. Returned for Steyning with the support of Charles Eversfield (q.v.) in 1740, he voted with the Government in all recorded divisions of the next Parliament. He died 30 Jan. 1759, leaving the bulk of his property to his sister Mary, the widow of his partner Bartholomew Clarke, whose only child married Jacob Bouverie (q.v.), 1st Viscount Folkestone.PCC 79 Arran.