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1336 Bart. His grandfather, Sir Wm. Young, F.R.S., F.S.A., at one time M.P. for St. Mawes, died Governor of the island of Tobago in 1811: his great-grandfather, of the same name, the first Baronet, was Lieut.-Governor of Dominica.

This officer entered the Navy 17 Nov. 1828; and passed his examination 4 June, 1834. At the period of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, which took place 3 Nov. 1841, he was serving in the Mediterranean, as Mate, in the steamer, Capt. John Richardson. His subsequent appointments -were – 13 Nov. 1841, to the 80, Capt. Sir David Dunn, also in the Mediterranean – 19 July, 1842, to the  120, flag-ship of Sir Edw. Codrington and Sir Chas. Rowley at Portsmouth- 23 Oct. 1843, to the 16, Capt. Sir Cornwallis Ricketts, fitting for the Cape of Good Hope – 2 Feb. 1844, as Additional, for a very short period, to the  72, flag-ship of Sir Wm. Parker in the East Indies – and 1 Feb. 1845, to the 16, Capt. Henry Coryton, in the West Indies. In 1846 he was dismissed from the vessel last mentioned and placed at the bottom of the list of Lieutenants. – Messrs. Stilwell.

 YOUNG. 

entered the Navy in 1830; passed his examination 15 Feb. 1839; served from 1841 until 1843 as Mate in the 74, Capt. Sam. Chambers, in the Mediterranean, and from 1844 until 1847 in the same capacity and as Lieutenant (commission dated 1 Dec. 1845) in the 72, flag-ship of Sir Thos. John Cochrane in the East Indies; and since 30 March, 1848, has been employed, as Senior, in the steam-sloop, of 320 horse-power, Capt. Jas. Aylmer Paynter, in the Pacific. On 19 Aug. 1845 he served with the boats of a squadron, carrying 530 officers, seamen, and marines (the whole under the command of Capt. Chas. Talbot), at the destruction of the piratical settlement of Malloodoo, on the north end of the island of Borneo, where the British sustained a loss of 6 men killed and 15 wounded; and on 8 July, 1846, having accompanied Sir T. J. Cochrane in an expedition against the Sultan of Borneo, he assisted, and was attached to the field-piece and rocket brigade, at the destruction of the enemy’s forts and batteries in the river Brune.

 YOUNG. 

entered the Navy, 15 Oct. 1813, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the of 32 guns and 171 men, Capts. Thos. Forrest and Gordon Thos. Falcon. In the ensuing Jan. he was in company, off Madeira (he had already attained the rating of Midshipman), with the 74, at the capture of the French 40-gun frigates Iphigénie and Alcmène with the former of whom the  was for some time alone engaged in a running-fight; and on 20 Feb. 1815, after having visited Quebec, Newfoundland, and Gibraltar, he was captured, simultaneously with the  of 20 guns and 131 men, by the U.S. frigate Constitution of 54 guns and 469 men, at the end of a fierce conflict, in which the, besides being cut to pieces, sustained a loss of 6 killed and 13, including himself, wounded. With his fellow-prisoners, Mr. Young, who, as well as the rest, had been plundered of all he had, was put on shore at Maranham, on the coast of Brazil. On his ultimate return to England he was received, in Oct. 1815, on board the 74, Capt. Thos. Alexander, lying at Portsmouth, where he remained until Aug. 1817. During the next three years he was employed in South America in the 26, Capt. G. T. Falcon; he then, in Nov. 1820, joined the  42, Capt. Hyde Parker, in the Mediterranean; and in Sept. 1821 (nearly three months after he had left the ) he was appointed Admiralty-Midshipman of the  50, Coast Blockade-ship, Capt. Wm. M‘Culloch. While attached to the he lost his left leg and thigh. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 7 Dec. 1822; and has since been on half-pay.

 YOUNG, Bart. 

was born 19 Aug. 1797, and died 8 Feb. 1848, at his seat, Formosa Place, near Maidenhead, Berks. He was son (with the present ) of Sir Sam. Young (whom he succeeded as 2nd Baronet 14 Dec. 1826), by Emily, daughter of Chas. Baring, Esq., of Exmouth; and grandson of Admiral Sir Geo. Young, Kt., who first went to sea with the celebrated Boscawen, distinguished himself greatly at the sieges of Louisbourg, Havana, and Pondicherry, and died in 1810.

This officer entered the Navy, 11 April, 1811, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 74, commanded by the late Sir Josias Rowley, under whom we find him present as Midshipman (a rating he attained in Oct. 1812) in the attacks made in 1813-14 upon Leghorn and Genoa. He returned to England about Oct. of the latter year; and was afterwards, until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 9 Nov. 1818, employed on the Brazilian, Mediterranean, and Home stations, in the 74 and  104, flag-ships of Sir John Poo Beresford and Sir J. Rowley,  74 and  again, both commanded by Capt. Edw. Brace, 100, bearing the flag of Lord Exmouth (with whom he fought at the battle of Algiers),  yacht, Capt. Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen, 20, Capt. Geo. Fred. Rich, and again, Capts. Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen and Hon. Chas. Paget. His succeeding appointments were – 27 Oct. 1819, to the 74, flagship of Sir J. Rowley at Cork – 31 July, 1823, to the command (after nearly two years of half-pay) of the  schooner in the West Indies – 4 Oct. following, to the  46, Capt. Henry Evelyn Pitfield Sturt, at Portsmouth – 16 Dec. 1823, as First, to the  18, Capt. Thos. Stopford, again in the West Indies – and 15 Sept. 1824, to the 50, bearing the flag of Sir Lawrence Wm. Balsted on the same station. He was promoted to the command of the sloop at Jamaica 25 Oct. 1825; and was lastly, from 20 July, 1832, until Nov. 1834, employed in the  18 in the Mediterranean. His promotion to Post-rank took place 23, Nov. 1841.

Sir Geo. Young married, 23 June, 1835, Susan, only daughter of the late Mr. Serjeant Praed, by whom he has left issue.

 YOUNG. 

, born 14 Dec. 1785, is son of Alex. Young, Esq., M.D., Surgeon R.N. (1762), who was on board the 74 when that ship foundered on her passage home from the West Indies 21 Sept. 1782, was afterwards in the  in Lord Howe’s action 1 June, 1794, and died about 1818. He is brother of Capt. Wm. Young, R.M. (who fought in Sir Rich. Strachan’s action and died in 1843), and of the present ; brother-in-law of Lieut.-Colonel Thos. Stevens, R.M., of John Cunningham, Esq., Surgeon R.N. (1796), and of Rich. Haig, Esq., Purser and Paymaster R.N.; and uncle of, and of H. D. P. Cunningham, Esq., Purser and Paymaster R.N.

This officer entered the Navy, in 1800, as Midshipman, on board the prison-ship, Lieut.-Commander John Maston, lying in the river Medway, where he remained until the peace of Amiens. He served next, from March, 1863, until his return to England in July, 1808, in the 74, Capts. Arch. Collingwood Dickson and Joseph Bingham, on the Channel and East India stations, part of the time as Master’s Mate; and on 22 Sept. in the latter year he was made Lieutenant into the bomb, Capt. Alex. Cunningham, in the Baltic. His succeeding appointments were, as Senior Lieutenant