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Young, Andrew (1885–1971). Poet. He was born on 29 April 1885 in Elgin and was educated at the HIGH SCHOOL OF Edinburgh and the University. His formal education was completed as a theological student at New College, Edinburgh, and he was ordained a minister of the United Free Church of Scotland in 1912, his first charge being in the village of Temple, Midlothian. During World War I he was attached to the YMCA in France and in 1918 he left Scotland to become minister of the English Presbyterian Church at Hove in Sussex. In 1936 there began his conversion to the Church of England and after a period as a curate in Plaistow, Sussex, he became Vicar of Stoneygate in the same county from 1941 until his retirement in 1959. His last years were spent in Yapton near Arundel, where he died in 1971.
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Royle, T. (1984). Y. In: The Macmillan Companion to Scottish Literature. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07587-4_24
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