Benjamin Stanley Young (13 December 1851 –16 August 1934) served as Magistrate of the British Overseas Territory of the

Pitcairn Islands The Pitcairn Islands (; Pitkern: '), officially the Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands, is a group of four volcanic islands in the southern Pacific Ocean that form the sole British Overseas Territory in the Pacific Ocean. The four isl ...

twice, from 1884 to 1885, and in 1892. Young's father, Simon Young, also served as magistrate. Young was descendant of mutineers

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and

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, as well as John Buffett, a schoolteacher and whaler, who had arrived on Pitcairn in 1823 to help Adams teach the islands many children. Young married Rebecca Holman Ascension McCoy, the daughter of Matthew McCoy. They had 7 children.

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