Young, Andrew ♂

Education

Student St Mary’s College 1840-1841 occ.

Birth/childhood

Born 23.4.1807 son of David Young, teacher, Edinburgh.

Career

Also studied Edinburgh University - arts student then divinity student 1837-1839.

Headmaster Niddrie Street School, Edinburgh 1828-1840.

English master Madras College, St Andrews 1840-1853 (retired to Edinburgh). After retirement was Superintendent Greenside Parish Sunday School. [Teacher]

Author of the hymn ‘There is a happy land’. Published volume of poems. F.R.S.E. 1881.

Death

Died 30.11.1889.

Sources

• Census 1841 St Andrews
• PRSE xix 1892 -93
• Madras Coll. Mag. no.2 p17
• UYUY7Sec1a/1894
• St Andrews Citizen 19.10.1895 p4 col. 6
• Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh xix 1892/93 plxiii