John Douglas Young (1842 – 16 November 1893) was a Scottish-born Australian politician. John_Douglas_Young_A-00041413

He was born in

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to miner William Young and Helen Wilson. At the age of thirteen he became an apprentice engineer, and he went to sea two years later. In 1865 he settled in

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, where he worked a number of jobs before purchasing a hotel around 1869. On 27 March 1869 he married widow Margaret O'Brien Kelly, with whom he had a son. A

Sydney City Council The City of Sydney is the local government area covering the Sydney central business district and surrounding inner city suburbs of the greater metropolitan area of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Established by Act of Parliament in 1842, th ...

lor from 1879 to 1893, he was elected to the

New South Wales Legislative Assembly The New South Wales Legislative Assembly is the lower of the two houses of the Parliament of New South Wales, an Australian state. The upper house is the New South Wales Legislative Council. Both the Assembly and Council sit at Parliament Ho ...

for West Sydney in 1885, but he was defeated in 1887. He was appointed to the

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in 1892, where he remained until his death in Sydney in 1893.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Young, John 1842 births 1893 deaths Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council 19th-century Australian politicians Politicians from Hamilton, South Lanarkshire Scottish emigrants to Australia