William Young was born in Charlton, then in Kent, now Greater London, in December 1749, the eldest son of Sir William Young, 1st Baronet, governor of Dominica, and his second wife, Elizabeth (Taylor) Young (1729–1801), the daughter of the mathematician Brook Taylor
Sir William Young, 2nd Baronet, FRS, FSA, was a British colonial governor, politician and sugar plantation owner. He was the governor of Tobago from 1807 – January 1815, and Member of Parliament for St Mawes, 19 June 1784 – 3 November 1806, and Buckingham, 5 November 1806 – 23 March 1807.
On 12 August 1777, he married Sarah at St George the Martyr, Queen Square, London, the daughter and coheir of Charles Lawrence and his wife, Mary. They had four sons and two daughters.
Sarah died in 1791 and he remarried on 22 April 1793 at St George, Hanover Square, London, to Barbara, the daughter of Colonel Richard Talbot and his wife, Margaret, later Baroness Talbot of Malahide. Sarah's uncle was Peter Talbot, Archbishop of Dublin. She survived him, dying 15 years later after his death in 1830. [1][2]
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