MEMOIRS OF THE LATE DR. EDWARD YOUNG, COLLECTED FROM VARIOUS AUTHORS AS WELL EDWARD YOUNG, L. L. D. Author of the Night Thoughts, and many other excellent pieces, was the only fon of Dr. Edward Young, an eminent, learned, and judicious divine, Dean of Sarum, Fellow of Winchester College, and Rector of Upham, in Hampshire. He was born in the year 1684, at Up: ham; and, after being educated in Winchester College, was chofen on the foundation of New College at Oxford, October 13, 1703, when he was nineteen years of age; but being fuperannuated, and there being no vacancy of a fellowship, he removed before the expiration of the year to Corpus Chrifli, where he entered himself a Gentleman Commoner. In 1708, he was put into a law fellowship, at All Souls, by Archbishop Tennifon. Here he took the degree of B. C. L. in 1714, and in 1719, D. C. L. In this year he published his Tragedy of Bufiris; in Difqualified on account of his years. |