Social Victorians/People/Young

Also Known As

 * Family name: Young
 * Sir Allen Young
 * Virtual International Authority File: VIAF ID: 104487564

Demographics

 * Nationality: English

Residences

 * Sir Capt. Allen William Young: 18 Grafton street W (1885 – 1901 [at least])

Family

 * Henry Young (c. 1792 – 7 July 1854 )
 * Ellen Leaf Young (19 August 1796 – buried 7 February 1865 )
 * Amelia Young (c. 1824 – September 1891 )
 * Florance Henry Young (12 April 1825 – 7 August 1861 )
 * Adeline Young (29 July 1826 – )
 * Sir Allen William Young (12 December 1827 – 20 November 1915)
 * Henrietta Young Barron (31 December 1830 – 8 February 1921 )
 * Emma Young Sim (4 June 1832 – December 1912 )
 * Ellen Young (1834 – 24 October 1909 )
 * Sophia Roberta Young Bainbridge (17 June 1835 – 20 March 1904 )
 * Frances Marion Young Spearing (25 October 1836 – 27 January 1892 )
 * Maria Young (29 April 1839 – )



Timeline
1851 March 30, Sunday, the 1851 Census for England and Wales lists the following people at Cross Deep, Riverdale [?] House: Henry Young (Head of Household, 58 years old), Ellen Young (56), Amelia Young (27), F. Henry Young (26), Henrietta Young (20), Emma Young (18), Ellen Young (17), Sophia Roberta Young (15), Frances Marrion Young (14), Maria Young (13), An Beer (Governess, 27?), James Mepham (Footman, 27), John Squire (Groom, 26?), Sam Johnson (Groom, 25), Lydia Skilton (Cook, 50?), Mary Phillips (1st Ladies Maid, 23), Martha Staggers (2nd Ladies Maid, 24), Ann Mathews (House Maid, 25), Elizabeth Cordery (House Maid, 20), and Harriet Gurman (Kitchen Maid, 23). The 1851 Census lists Allen William Young as a visitor at 1 Walton Court in St. Botolph, Aldgate.

1861 April 7, Sunday, the 1861 Census for England and Wales lists lists the following people at Riversdale Villa, Cross Deep, Eastside: Ellen Young (Head of Household, Widow, 65 years old), Amelia Young (37), Emma Young (28), Ellen Young (27), Maria Young (22), son-in-law John Sidney Webb (Widowed, Elder Brother, 45), Rebecca Perkins (Ladies Maid, 19), Ann Hardy (Housemaid, 37), Charlotte Clements (Housemaid, 26), Ellena MacKinnery (Cook, 30), John Fairfield (Groom, 27), and George Butlin (Footman, 20). In the 1861 Census, Allen William Young is visiting West Cowes in the Royal Yacht Squadron Club-House.

1876, Young was knighted (CB, Companion of the Order of the Bath) for his work searching for the Franklin expedition.

1877 May 27, Young introduced Lily Langtree to Albert Edward, Prince of Wales at a dinner party he hosted: "Sir Allen Young, the arctic explorer, invited her to late supper in his house, where it had been arranged that the Prince of Wales should meet her after the opera. The result was all that could have been expected. Mrs. Langtry became the Prince's first openly recognised mistress."

1881 July 14, afternoon, beginning about 2 p.m., Sir Allen Young was among the 3,000 or so people who were invited to the Garden Party at Marlborough House hosted by the Prince and Princess of Wales. Queen Victoria was at this event.

1881 July 22, Friday, Sir Allen Young was among the 750–1000 people who were invited to the Marlborough House Party hosted by the Prince and Princess of Wales.

1886 July 21, Wednesday, Sir Allen Young was among the 750–1000 people who were invited to the Ball at Marlborough House hosted by the Prince and Princess of Wales.

1887 May 9, Sir Allen Young was among the more than 1,000 members of the Welcome Council of the American Exhibition at Earl's Court, which included Buffalo Bill's Wild West, and which ran from 9 May 1887 through 31 October 1887, when it closed and moved to Manchester. The Welcome Council was made up of multiple committees; Young was on the Committee of Welcome, which had 1,025 members. The Council and its committees involved work and planning from some of the participants, although many may have been on the committee for their names. If Young did do any work for the committee, he might have done it before the opening on 9 May 1887.

1891 July 9, Sir Allen Young was among the more than 3,000 people who were invited to the Garden Party at Marlborough House hosted by the Prince and Princess of Wales.

1892 August 16, Tuesday, Queen Victoria was at Osborne, accompanied by Alexandra, Princess of Wales and Princess Beatrice, and held a dinner party on Tuesday night. Allen was present, as were "the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Duke of Connaught, Prince and Princess Henry of Battenberg, Princess Maud of Wales, the Dowager Lady Southampton, Mrs Montgomery, the Earl of Ducie, the Right Hon W E Gladstone, Sir Ducie, the Right Hon W E Gladstone, ... and General Lynedoch Gardiner."

1896 August 19, Wednesday, Queen Victoria was at Osborne, accompanied by Princess Henry of Battenberg and the Hon. Frances Drummond, and then also Countess Feodore Gleichen. The dinner party Wednesday night also included people who were at Cowes for the yachting: "Captain Acland, her Majesty's ship Australia, guardship at Cowes, and the Hon. Mrs. Acland, Mrs. Lawrence Drummond, Sir Allen Young, C.B., and Major Strong, 2nd Battalion Scottish Rifles."

1897 July 2, Sir Allen Young attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball.

Costume at the Duchess of Devonshire's 2 July 1897 Fancy-dress Ball
Sir Allen Young attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball.

Notes and Questions

 * 1) Henry Young was the son of Florance Thomas Young, a brewer in London at the end of the 18th century. On 13 February 1809 Henry was bound as a clerk to attorney John Sudlow in London for 5 years. Henry was "admitted into the Freedom of this City" on 9 July 1832 based on his father's admission on 19 August 1779. Perhaps Florance Thomas Young had money, but certainly by 1851 Henry Young had enough money for 10 servants.