Arthur Young (divine)

Arthur Young (1693–1759), was an English clergyman and divine.
Life
Young was born in 1693, the son of Bartholomew Young (d. 12 August 1724) of Bradfield Combust in Suffolk. He was educated at Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, graduating LL.B. in 1716, and proceeding LL.D. in 1728. In 1719 he was instituted to the rectories of Bradfield Combust and Bradfield St. Clare. On 27 June 1746 he was installed a prebendary of Canterbury. In 1748 he was presented to the vicarage of Exning in Suffolk, and received a dispensation to hold it with Bradfield St. Clare. He was also chaplain to Arthur Onslow, speaker of the House of Commons.
Young died on 26 June 1759 at Bradfield Combust, where he had inherited from his father an estate of about two hundred acres, and was buried there.
Family
Young married Anna Lucretia (d. 6 October 1785), daughter of John Coussmaker of Weybridge, Surrey. By her he had two sons, John and Arthur, and a daughter...