John Matthew Wilson Young (17 December 1822;

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– 4 March 1897;

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) was an English organist. He was elder brother to William James Young (1835;

- 1913;

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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;

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- 1902;

), youngest daughter of Philip Frushard (13 October 1783

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- 5 July 1837

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

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Career

He was successively:West, John E. (1899) Cathedral Organists. London: Novello and Company *A chorister at

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*Assistant Organist of Durham Cathedral, ? to 1850 *Organist of

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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 (1858–1936) *Walter Frushard Young (ca. 1859–1875) *Rosetta Catherine Young (1860–ca. 1914) *Ada Frushard Young (1862–1943) *Richard Samuel Frushard Young (1868–1894)

References

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