S. Dilworth Young

S. Dilworth Young
Emeritus General Authority
September 30, 1978 – July 9, 1981
Called by	Spencer W. Kimball
First Quorum of the Seventy
October 3, 1975 – September 30, 1978
Called by	Spencer W. Kimball
End reason	Granted general authority emeritus status
First Council of the Seventy
April 6, 1945 – October 1, 1976
Called by	Heber J. Grant
End reason	Honorable release
Personal details
Born	Seymour Dilworth Young September 7, 1897 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Died	July 9, 1981 (aged 83) Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Seymour Dilworth Young (September 7, 1897 – July 9, 1981) was a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) for 36 years, from 1945 until his death.

From 1945 to 1975, Young was the senior president of the church's First Council of the Seventy. In 1975 he was sustained a member of the newly created First Quorum of Seventy. He was the senior president of the Seventy from 1967 to 1976.

Young was a graduate of Weber College (now Weber State University). He served in the United States military during World War I. After the war he served as a missionary in the Central States Mission.

Young was known as an author and poet among members of the church. Young authored a biography of his great-great-uncle, LDS Church president Brigham Young. Many of Dilworth Young's poems have been published in the Ensign. He is son of Seymour B. Young, Jr. and Carlie Louine Clawson. Young was the grandson of Latter-day Saint leader Seymour B. Young, the nephew of Levi E. Young and the great-grandson of Joseph Young. He was also a descendant of Edward Partridge. One of Young's early American ancestors, Thomas Bascom, a founder of Windsor, Connecticut, was of French Basque and French Huguenot descent. Young married Gladys Pratt and had two children, one of whom died in World War II. Following his first wife's death, Young married Huldah Parker.

From 1947 to 1951, Young was president of the church's New England Mission.

Young is the subject of a biography by grandson Benson Y. Parkinson (Covenant, 1994).

External links

• Grampa Bill's G.A. Pages: S. Dilworth Young
• Leon R. Hartshorn. Outstanding Stories by General Authorities. (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1970) Vol. 1, p. 225.
• S. Dilworth Young letter. MSS SC 448; S. Dilworth Young letter; 20th Century Western and Mormon Manuscripts; L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University.