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Young, Wilfrid Ernest, son of Ernest William Young, of Dorchester, Dorset; b. Dec. 28, 1891; adm. May 4, 1906 (H); left July 1910; enlisted Oct. 1914 in the Federated Malay States; 2nd Lieut. 3rd Batt. Dorset Regt. Jan. 23, 1915; and served with 1st Batt. from April 1915; transferred to R.F.C. Dec. 1915, serving with Nos. 11 and 6 Sqdns. in France as observer; Flight Commander Jan. 1, 1917 with Sqdns. 19 and 74; Sqdn. Cdr. with Sqdns. 1 and 216; wounded near Ypres July 22, 1917; D.F.C. July 2, 1918; m. Dec. 31, 1924; Ruth, daughter of J. Mahoney; d. 17 June 1979.

Young, Wallace Balfour, son of Edward Wallace Young, estate asent, of Surbiton, Surrey, and Evelyn Elizabeth, d. of George Cowan of Uddingston, Lanarkshire; b. 24 Oct. 1911; adm. Sept. 1925 (H); left July 1929; Coll. of Estate Management 1929-31; an estate agent 1931-9; ARICS 1936, AAI 1937; 2nd Lieut. RE (TA) Aug. 1939, transf. RA 1944 (Capt.); TARO 1946-61; TD; valuer Board of Inland Revenue 1947-76; m. 8 Mar. 1940 Helen Margaret, d. of Charles Her­bert Lankester OBE, coffee grower, of Cartago, Costa Rica; d. May 2002.

YOUNG, THOMAS, son of Rev. William Young, Rector of Necton, Norfolk, and Anne Pigge; b.; adm. 23 Jan 1778; left 1784; Gonville and Caius Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 28 Aug 1784, aged 17; BA 1789; MA 1792; ordained 1789; Rector of Necton and Vicar of Holme Hale, Norfolk, from 1794; Vicar of Methwold and Rector of Cranwich, Norfolk 30 Apr 1800-4; d. 23 Sep 1837.

YOUNG, THOMAS HENRY; b. 24 Feb 1806; adm. 1 Apr 1818.

Young, Sir Roger William, son of Charles Bowden Young, Vice-Principal St Stephen’s Coll. Delhi, India, and Ruth Wilson CBE, d. of William Brown Wilson of Broughty Ferry, Angus; b. 15 Nov. 1923; adm. Sept. 1937 (KS); Capt. of the Sch. 1941; left July 1942; RNVR 1942-5 (Lieut. ); Ch. Ch. Oxf., elected 1942, matric. 1946, BA 1949, MA 1953; res. tutor St Catharine’s Sch. Foundn. 1949-51; asst. master, Manchester GS 1951-8; Lambeth Palace, STh 1957; Principal, George Watson’s Coll., Edinburgh 1958-85; FRS (Edin. ) 1965; Edinburgh Festival Council 1970-6; Pres. Headmasters’ Assn. of Scotland 1972-4; chmn. Headmasters’ Conference 1976; Hamilton Coll. NY, USA, Hon. LHD 1979; Governor BBC and Nat. Governor for Scotland 1979-84; knighted 1983; a Governor of the Sch. 1986-97; author of Lines of Thought 1958, Everybody’s Business 1968, Everybody’s World 1972; m. 2 Dec. 1950 Caroline Mary, sister of Charles Henry Christie (qv); d. 15 Feb. 2017.

Young, Pierre Harry John, son of David Hunter Young, bank official, of Paris, France, and Bernardine Anselmine Jeanne, d. of Pierre Barus of Paris, France; b. 12 June 1926; adm. Sept. 1939 (KS); left July 1943; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1943, Math. Trip. Pt 2 1945; Bristol-Siddeley Engines Ltd. 1949; in charge Concorde Olympus 593 engine programme 1962, engineering dir. 1966-70, tech. dir. 1970-3; dep. tech dir. Rolls-Royce (1971) Ltd. 1973-6, later dir. of advanced engineering; FRAeS FIMechE; FRS 1974; m. 17 Dec. 1953 Lilly Irene, d. of Martin Cahn; d. 4 Aug. 1985.

Young, Peter, son of Dallas Hales Wilkie Young (qv); b. 28 July 1915; adm. Jan. 1929 (G); left July 1930 and went to Monmouth Sch.; Trin. Coll. Oxf., matnc. 1934, BA MA 1943; commissioned Beds & Herts Regt 1939, wounded (Dunkirk) 1940; No. 3 Commando 1940-5, MC (Norway) Apr. 1942, DSO (Dieppe) Oct. 1942; CO No. 3 Commando 1943-4, Bar to DSO (Sicily) Oct. 1943, second Bar (Italy) Jan. 1944; served Normandy 1944, Arakan 1944-5; CO 1st Com­mando Bde 1945-6; Maj. Aug. 1950; CO 9th Regt Arab Legion 1953-6; Lieut.-Col. Feb. 1956, hon. Brigadier July 1959; Reader in Military History RMA Sandhurst 1959-69; FRHistS FSA 1960, FRGS 1968; gen. editor Military Memoirs series 1967; dep. editor Purnell's History of the First World War; author of many works on military history; m. 1950 Joan Duckworth; d. 13 Sept. 1988.

Young, Patric Peregrine Wilkie, son of Horace Edward Wilkie Young (qv); b. 13 Sept. 1913; adm. May 1927 (G); left July 1931; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1932, BA 1935; textile machinery industry; Middx Regt 1940-2 (Lieut.); d. of wounds (Middle East) Dec. 1942.

Patrick Peregrine Wilkie Young was born at Chelsea, London on the 13th of September 1913 the only son of Horace Edward Wilkie Young OW, Levant Consular service, and Agnes Margaret (nee Anson later Gladstone) Young of 16, Carlyle Mansions, Chelsea in London. He was christened at St Luke’s Church, Chelsea on the 16th of October 1913. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Grant’s from May 1927 to July 1931. He was a skilled fencer with foil, epee and sabre and served as Hon. Secretary of the Fencing team from 1931 to 1932. He was appointed as the first Secretary of the Old Westminsters Fencing Club and was Secretary of the Graham-Bartlett Cup Committee. He matriculated for Trinity College, Oxford on the 7th of October 1932 where he was admitted as a commoner and was awarded a BA in 1935. On leaving university he went to work in the textile machinery industry and lived at Alston Londes, Waterhead near Oldham in Lancashire.
Following the outbreak of war he enlisted as a Private in the Lancashire Fusiliers and attended an Officer Cadet Training Unit before being commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Middlesex Regiment on the 11th of February 1940.
He is commemorated on the war memorial at Trinity College, Oxford.
He is buried at Benghazi War Cemetery Plot 6, Row B, Grave 33.

Young, Nicholas Gordon, son of Gordon Arthur James Young, underwriting member of Lloyd’s, and Mary Amy Evelyn, d. of Frank Douglas Simpson, Indian Civil Service, District Judge United Provinces, of Aberdeen; b. 2 May 1949; adm. Jan. 1963 (L); left Dec. 1967; St Catherine’s Coll. Oxf., matric. 1968, BA 1972 (1st class hons Eng. Lang. & Lit. ); a freelance theatre and film dir.; d. in a road accident 27 June 1981.