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 YOUNG, Sydney, F.R.S., 1893; M.A. (Dublin); D.Sc. (London); B.Sc. (Manchester); Hon. D.Sc. (Dublin and Bristol); F.I.C.: F.C.S.; F.Inst.P.; F.P.S.L. Educ.; Private School, Southport; Royal Institution, Liverpool; Owens College, Manchester; Strassburg University: Lecturer on Chemistry, University College, Bristol, 1882-1887; Professor 1887-1903; Professor of Chemistry in Dublin University since 1903; President of Chemical Section of British Association, Cambridge, 1904; Member of Council of Royal Dublin Society since 1907; Vice-President Royal Irish Academy, 1908-11, 1913-15, 1917-19; President since 1921; Vice-President Chemical Society, 1917; Member of the Irish Peat Inquiry Committee, 1917; Member of Advisory Council of Scientific and Industrial Research Department since 1920; b. 29th Dec, 1857; third son of Edward Young, J.P., a Liverpool merchant. Pubns.: Fractional Distillation, 1903; Stoichiometry, 2nd edn., 1918; Distillation Principles and Processes, 1922; and more than 100 papers on Physical, Inorganic, and Organic Chemistry in British, Irish, and Foreign Scientific Journals. Recns.: golfing, gardening. Res.: 13 Clyde Road, Dublin. Club: Royal Societies, London.

YOUNG, Right Hon. William Robert, P.C. (1921), J.P. Co. Antrim; member of J. & R. Young, Linen Merchants, Bedford Street, Belfast; eldest son of late Right Hon. John Young, D.L., of Galgorm Castle, Co. Antrim, and Grace Charlotte, dau. of Lieut.-Col. Patrick Savage, 13th Light Dragoons; b. 1856; m. 1893, Mary Alice, dau. of Right Hon. Sir Francis Macnaghten, 3rd Bart. Res.: Galgorm Castle, Galgorm, Co. Antrim.

YPRES, Earl of (Unit. Kgd., 1922), Viscount French of Ypres and High Lake (Unit. Kgd., 1916), Field-Marshal Sir John Denton Pinkstone French, 1st Earl, K.P. (1917), P.C. (1918), G.C.B. (1909), O.M. (1914), G.C.V.O. (1905), K.C.B. Mil. (1901), K.C.M.G. (1902).; entered the Army, 1874; Field Marshal, 1914; served in Soudan Campaign, 1884-85 (battles of Abu Klea and Metemmeh); A.A.G. of Cavalry on the Staff, 1893-4; A.A.G. at Headquarters, 1895-7; Commanded 1st Cavalry Brigade at Aldershot, 1899; Commanded Cavalry Division in Natal, 1899; Commanded Cavalry Force at battles of Reitfontein, and Lombard Kop; in chief command at battle of Elandslaagte; relief of Kimberley, capture of Bloemfontein and Pretoria, Boer War, 1899-1900 and in chief command of all the Forces in Cape Colony, 1901: commanded the 1st Army Corps, 1901-07: Inspector-General of the Forces, 1907-12; Chief of the Imperial General Staff, 1912-14; Inspector-General of the Forces. 1914: Commander of the Expeditionary Force to France, 1914-16; Commanding the Forces in the United Kingdom, 1916 to 1918; Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 1918 to 1921; A.D.C. General, 1911, b. 1852; eldest son of Captain French, R.N.; m. 1880, Eleanor, dau. of R. Selby Lowndes, and has issue two sons and one dau. Res.: Lancaster Gate, London, W.; Drumdoe, Co. Roscommon. Clubs: Marlborough, Athenæum Cavalry, United Service.

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