John Matthew Wilson Young (17 December 1822; Durham

Durham

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 – 4 March 1897; Lincoln

Lincoln, Lincolnshire

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) was an English organist. He was elder brother to William James Young (1836; Durham

Durham

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 - 1913; Lancashire

Lancashire

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), 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

Lambeth

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 - 1902; Lincoln

Lincoln, Lincolnshire

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), youngest daughter of Philip Frushard (13 October 1783 India

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 - 5 July 1837 Durham

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), the Governor of Durham Gaol, and Anna Maria Pewsey his wife, on 8 July 1851 at St. Paul's Church, Deptford

St. Paul's, Deptford

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, Kent

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.

Career

He was successively:

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