John Matthew Wilson Young

John Matthew Wilson Young (17 December 1822; Durham – 4 March 1897; Lincoln) was an English organist. He was elder brother to William James Young (1836; Durham - 1913; Lancashire), also a well-known English organist. John M.W. Young was buried in the cemetery at East Gate in Lincoln. He married Augusta Frushard (1820; Lambeth - 1902; Lincoln), youngest daughter of Philip Frushard (13 October 1783 India - 5 July 1837 Durham), the Governor of Durham Gaol, and Anna Maria Pewsey his wife, on 8 July 1851 at St. Paul's Church, Deptford, Kent.

Career

He was successively:^[1]

• A chorister at Durham Cathedral
• Assistant Organist of Durham Cathedral, ? to 1850
• Organist of Lincoln Cathedral, 1850 to 1895

Publications

The psalter, as used in Lincoln Cathedral, John Matthew Wilson Young, Henry Wollaston Hutton, George John Bennett, W.K. Morton & Sons, 1912

Children

• Augusta Anna Maria Young (1852–1921)
• John Frederick Sebastion Young (1853–1873)
• Philip Frushard Young (1855–?)
• Edward Muir Young (ca. 1857–1915)
• Alfred Hamilton Frushard Young (1858–1918)
• Walter Frushard Young (ca. 1859–1875)
• Rosetta Catherine Young (1860–ca. 1914)
• Ada Frushard Young (1862–1943)
• Richard Samuel Frushard Young (1868–1894)

References

1. West, John E. (1899) Cathedral Organists. London: Novello and Company