Arthur Young (divine)
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Arthur Young (1693–1759) was an English clergyman of the Church of England and a religious writer. He was much concerned with the "idolatrous corruptions" he found in early religion.
Young was born in 1693, the son of Bartholomew Young (died 12 August 1724) of Bradfield Combust in Suffolk. He was educated at Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, graduating LL.B. in 1716, and proceeding LL.D. in 1728.[1] In 1719 he was instituted to the rectories of Bradfield Combust and Bradfield St Clare. On 27 June 1746 he was installed a prebendary of Canterbury and in 1748 presented to the vicarage of Exning in Suffolk, with a dispensation allowing him to hold it with Bradfield St Clare. He was also chaplain to Arthur Onslow, speaker of the House of Commons[2] and a Justice of the Peace for Suffolk.
Young died on 26 June 1759 at Bradfield Combust, where he had inherited from his father an estate of about 200 acres.[2]
