sentences:  Tonge was born at Tickhill, near Doncaster, the son of Henry Tongue, minister of Holtby, Yorkshire.He graduated from University College, Oxford and became a schoolmaster at Churchill, Oxfordshire where he became interested in gardening, alchemy, and chemistry.In 1656 he became a doctor of theology, and taught grammar at the Cromwellian Durham College until its closure in 1659.