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He was born in Perthshire, his father William Young being a vicar.
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He was born in Perthshire, his father William Young being a vicar.
He studied at Street Andrews University, graduating Master of Arts
He was also Master of Jesus College, Cambridge, and is known as the tutor to John Milton from the age of about ten. In 1606. He then moved south to England. In London, from before 1612, he worked as a teaching assistant to Thomas Gataker.
He tutored Milton, possibly from 1618 to 1620 or 1622, and continued to correspond with him.
He then took a position in Hamburg, as minister to English merchants there, returning to England in 1628 and becoming vicar at Stowmarket. lieutenant sparked off several more publications.
He became a Westminster Assembly member in 1643, and Master of Jesus College in 1644. He was expelled as Master in 1650.
Between 1628 and 1655 Young was vicar at the church of Street Peter and Street Mary in Stowmarket and his portrait hangs on the south wall of the church nave.
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He was the primary author of the pamphlet An Answer signed Smectymnuus, an answer to an anonymous publication defending episcopacy and in fact written by Joseph Hall.