While still at school he began to write a history of England, had fallen in love, and cultivated the art of dancing. This had one good effect, and that a very important one for me: she never afterwards looked into any book but on the subject of religion, and her only constant companion was her bible, herein copying the example of her father.’ Arthur Young was destined in time to follow the same example under the influence of a similar shock. ‘My mother,’ he says, ‘grieved so much for her loss that she could never be persuaded to go out of mourning, but mourned till her own death, nor did she ever recover her cheerfulness. The same year he visited his sister in London, shortly before her death. Robertson of Lynn, with a view to his subsequent employment in Messrs. In 1758 he left school, and was apprenticed to Messrs. She writes to him of home and foreign politics and society gossip as if he were already a man of the world. At the age of twelve he went to London, saw Garrick, heard the ‘Messiah,’ went to Ranelagh, and met John Wilkes ‘more than once.’ A letter from his sister, dated 1755, shows the precocity of his intelligence. In 1748 he was sent to school at Lavenham, where he received more indulgence than instruction. The speaker and the bishop of Rochester were his godfathers.
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His mother, Anna Lucretia, daughter of John Coussmaker, brought her husband a sufficient dowry to require that Bradfield Hall, manor and lands, the small estate which the Youngs had owned since 1672, should be settled upon herself.
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1741, was younger son of Arthur Young (1693–1759), rector of Bradfield, Suffolk, and chaplain to Speaker Onslow. YOUNG, ARTHUR (1741–1820), agriculturist and author of ‘Travels in France,’ born at Whitehall, in London, on 11 Sept.