John Young (16th-century MP)

Tomb effigy of Sir John Young, Bristol cathedral

Tomb inscription in Bristol cathedral

Sir John Young (by 1519 – 4 September 1589), of Bristol, London and Melbury Sampford, Dorset, was an English politician.

He was the eldest surviving son of Hugh Young of Bristol and Castle Combe, who he succeeded in 1534.

He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Old Sarum in 1547 and 1571, Plymouth in 1555, Devizes in 1559, and West Looe in 1563.^[1]

He was appointed High Sheriff of Dorset for 1569–70 and was a Justice of the Peace for Dorset and Somerset from c.1573. He was knighted in 1574.

He died at Bristol in 1589 and the tomb of Sir John and his wife lies in Bristol cathedral. He had married Joan Wadham, the daughter of John Wadham of Merrifield, Somerset and the widow of Sir Giles Strangways. They had a son and 2 daughters.

References

1. https://secure.flickr.com/photos/sic_itur_ad_astra/6916607229/ picture of John Young's tomb

• "YOUNG, John I (by 1519-89), of Bristol, Glos.; London and Melbury Sampford, Dorset.". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 30 May 2013.

External links

• Feuding Gentry and an Affray on College Green, Bristol, in 1579 Bettey, J.H. in Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society (2004) Vol. 122, pp 153–159. ("During the 1570s two wealthy, landed gentlemen engaged in a struggle for primacy in Bristol. They were Hugh Smyth, who possessed Ashton Court together with widespread estates in Somerset and south Gloucestershire, and John Young, owner of properties in Somerset, Wiltshire and Dorset. Their rivalry was to involve several other gentry families in the district, and culminated in a violent confrontation between their armed retainers on College Green in March 1579.")