Charles_Young_(Australian_politician)

Charles Young (Australian politician)

Charles Young (Australian politician)

Australian politician

Charles Young (6 October 1825 – 28 February 1908) was a politician in colonial Victoria, Australia. He was a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1874 to 1892, representing the electorates of Kyneton Boroughs (1874–1889) and Electoral district of Kyneton (1889–1892).[1]

Young was born at Belfast in Ireland and was educated at Belfast Academy before becoming a sea captain, in which capacity he imported provisions into Ireland from France during the Great Famine. He migrated to Victoria in 1852 and worked as a carrier on the goldfields. His wife and children arrived from Ireland in 1854, and he bought a farm at Kyneton, "Abbeyville" c. 1855. He worked the farm until becoming a land agent and auctioneer in Kyneton in 1864. Young helped establish the Lauriston and Edgecombe Road Board in 1856, became a member of the board in 1858, and later served as chairman in the early 1860s. Young was president of the Shire of Kyneton from 1866 to 1867 and 1872 to 1873. He later bought "Bull Plain" near Corowa and had interests in other properties.[1][2][3]

Young was elected to the Legislative Assembly for Kyneton Boroughs at the 1874 colonial election. He was a strong opponent of the radical Graham Berry and when Berry was ousted by Bryan O'Loghlen in 1881, was promoted to the ministry, initially as acting Minister of Mines and Agriculture and Water Supply, and then in August that year as Commissioner for Public Works and Minister for Agriculture, serving until the ministry's defeat in March 1883. Young's seat was renamed Kyneton in 1889. He was defeated at the 1892 election.[1][2][4][5][6][7]

Young moved to the Melbourne suburb of Windsor after entering parliament. He died at his home there in 1908.[1][2]

Family

Young married Annie Lysle [Lyle?] (c. 1824 – 9 May 1903),[8] daughter of a linen manufacturer, in Ireland.[when?] In 1854 Mrs Young and their three Irish-born children followed her husband to Victoria.[9] Two of their daughters married pastoralists:

  • Marion Young (died 23 September 1926),[10] married William Wilson Killen (1860–1939) on 2 June 1891.[11] and
  • Annie Lyle Young (died 14 November 1915)[12] married his brother Edward Killen (c. 1865–1933) on 11 March 1891.[13]

References

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    "Charles Young". Re-Member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Archived from the original on 23 April 2023. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
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    "MR. Charles Young, Windsor". Freeman's Journal. New South Wales, Australia. 5 March 1908. p. 23. Retrieved 6 January 2020 – via Trove.
  3. [3]
    "Lauriston and Edgecombe Road Board". Kyneton Observer. 29 November 1864. p. 3. Retrieved 6 January 2020 – via Trove.
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    "The O'Loghlen Ministry". The Argus. 11 July 1881. p. 6. Retrieved 6 January 2020 – via Trove.
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    "The New Administration in Victoria". The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser. New South Wales, Australia. 16 July 1881. p. 127. Retrieved 6 January 2020 – via Trove.
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    "Victorian Ministerial Appointments". The Sydney Daily Telegraph. New South Wales, Australia. 15 August 1881. p. 3. Retrieved 6 January 2020 – via Trove.
  7. [7]
    "Election Mems". Independent. 23 April 1892. p. 2. Retrieved 6 January 2020 – via Trove.
  8. [8]
    "Family Notices". The Argus (Melbourne). No. 17, 730. Victoria, Australia. 11 May 1903. p. 1. Retrieved 3 February 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  9. [9]
    "Death of Mr Charles Young". The Argus (Melbourne). No. 19, 225. Victoria, Australia. 29 February 1908. p. 19. Retrieved 3 February 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  10. [10]
    "Mrs W. W. Killen". Goulburn Evening Penny Post. New South Wales, Australia. 27 September 1926. p. 3. Retrieved 26 December 2019 – via Trove.
  11. [11]
    "Family Notices". The Sydney Morning Herald. No. 24, 463. New South Wales, Australia. 2 June 1916. p. 8. Retrieved 2 February 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  12. [12]
    "Family Notices". The Australasian. Vol. XCIX, no. 2, 591. Victoria, Australia. 27 November 1915. p. 57. Retrieved 3 February 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  13. [13]
    "Family Notices". The Argus (Melbourne). No. 13, 956. Victoria, Australia. 18 March 1891. p. 1. Retrieved 3 February 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
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