Young, Edward (1), LL.D.
an English clergyman, father of the poet, was born in 1643. ‘ He was successively fellow of Winchester College, rector of Upham in Hampshire, prebendary of Salisbury (1682), chaplain to William and Mary, and dean of Salisbury. He died in 1705. He published a number of single sermons, and a collection under the title of Sermons on Several Occasions (Lond. 1702-3, 2 vols.). See Allibone, Dict. of Brit and Amer. Authors, s.v.