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Authorised form of nameYoung; Sir; Samuel (1766 - 1826)
Dates1766 - 1826
Date of birth23 February 1766
Date of death14 December 1826
ActivityCareer:
In the HEIC, Madras Civil Service
Honours:
Bt 1813
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election26/03/1795
RelationshipsElder son of Sir George Young (FRS 1781) and his first wife Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel Bradshaw of Great Marlow, Buckinghamshire; married (28 April 1796) Emily, daughter of Charles Baring of Exmouth
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
CodeNA2948
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
MS/426/8Copy letter from J W [John William] Lubbock, Treasurer of the Royal Society; to the Dean of Ely [George Peacock], Secretary, Ely1 February 1841
EC/1795/01Young, Sir Samuel: certificate of election to the Royal Society
AP/12/17/1Unpublished letter, regarding native iron from Woodbine Parish to Sir Samuel Young10 November 1825
HS/18/319Letter, from Samuel Young to Sir John Herschel1819 to 1826
HS/18/317Letter, from Samuel Young to Sir John Herschel, dated at 18 Gloucester Place, New Road5 June 1825
HS/18/314Letter, from Samuel Young to Sir John Herschel, dated at Formosa Cottage17 June 1819
HS/18/318Letter, from Samuel Young to Sir John Herschel, dated at Great Russell St.27 March 1821
HS/18/315Letter, from Samuel Young to Sir John Herschel, dated at Formosa Cottage5 August 1821
HS/18/316Letter, from Samuel Young to Sir John Herschel, dated at Exmouth20 November 1821
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