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The Rt. Hon. 'Sir George Yonge, 5th Baronet', KB (1731 – 25 September 1812) was a British Secretary at War (1782–1783 and 1783–1794) and the namesake of Toronto, Canada's Yonge Street, which was named by the Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada John Graves Simcoe, in 1793. He succeeded to the baronetcy in 1755 and it became extinct on his death.
He also served as Member of Parliament for Honiton from 1754 to 1761 and again from 1763 to 1796. He was elevated to the Privy Council of the United Kingdom in 1782.
He acted as Governor of the Cape Colony for a short period from 1799 to 1801.

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★ Baronetage information from ''"Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page"''. (accessed March 1, 2006)

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Yonge Street and Dundas Street : the men after whom they were named : a paper from the Canadian journal of literature, science and history. Henry Scadding