Education
He was educated at Cambridge, where he graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1536, Master of Arts
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John Young
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He was Master of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, and was later imprisoned by Elizabeth I. He is not John Young (1534?-1605), Master of Pembroke Hall later in the century, and afterwards Bishop of Rochester. He is said to have been a native of Yorkshire. in 1539, and Bachelor of Divinity in 1546. He was one of the witnesses present at Stephen Gardiner"s sermon at Saint Paul"s Cathedral on 1 July 1548, and in June 1549 took part on the Catholic side in the disputations before Nicholas Ridley at Cambridge.
A year later he was one of the disputants against Martin Bucer, whom he subsequently attacked in a course of lectures on the Epistles to Timothy, and in February 1551 he was accused before the privy council of stirring up opposition to Edward VI"s religious proceedings.
On 25 November and 3 December following he took part in the disputations on the Eucharist in William Cecil"s and Sir Richard Morison"s houses. At Queen Mary"s accession Young"s services were recognised by his creation as Doctor of Divinity at Cambridge in 1553. incorporation at Oxford on 14 April 1554, and appointment as master of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, on Ridley"s deprivation, and canon of Ely in succession to Matthew Parker (12 April 1554).
He was vice-chancellor of Cambridge from 1553 to 1555, when he became Regius Professor of Divinity. In this capacity he delivered a series of lectures entitled Enarrationes Joelis prophetae, which he dedicated to Cardinal Pole, and which are extant.
After Elizabeth"s accession he was deprived of his mastership by the university visitors on 20 July 1559, and committed to prison in the Counter, Wood Street, London, for refusing the oath.
On 28 July 1577 he was transferred to the custody of the dean of Canterbury, but, the dean"s persuasion having no effect upon his religious views, he was on 18 February 1578 committed to the queen"s bench. In 1580 he was moved to Wisbech Castle, where he is said to have died in October of that year. In an inscription on a portrait belonging to Cambridge University he is said to have died in 1579.
Membership
He was elected fellow of Saint John"s College, Cambridge in 1536, but on 19 December 1546 he was nominated by the charter of foundation an original member of Trinity College.
