Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet, translator, and civil servant. Pseudonym: A Best Man. Born at Cookham, Barts. Son of Sir George Young (2nd Baronet, 1797-1848). Nephew of poet Winthrop Mackworth Praed. Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. Succeeded to the title in 1848. Awarded a Trinity fellowship at his third attempt. Appointed as a Royal Commissioner in April 1870. Married Alice Eacy on 10 October 1871. Unsuccessfully stood for election twice as a Liberal Member of Parliament in 1868 and 1874. Supported women’s access to higher education. Appointed as a Charity Commissioner in 1882, and then Chief Charity Commissioner for England and Wales in 1903, retiring in 1906. Publications include Poems from Victor Hugo in English Verse (1901), An English Prosody (1928). Biographical information: OED. (AC)