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YOUNG, ARTHUR (1741-1820)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 938 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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YOUNG, See also:ARTHUR (1741-1820) , See also:English writer on See also:agriculture and social See also:economy, second son of the Rev. Arthur Young, See also:rector of Bradfield, in See also:Suffolk, See also:chaplain to See also:Speaker See also:Onslow, was See also:born on the 11th of See also:September 1741. After being at a school at Lavenham, he was in 1758 placed in a See also:mercantile See also:house at See also:Lynn, but showed no See also:taste for commercial pursuits. He published, when only seventeen, a pamphlet On the See also:War in See also:North See also:America, and in 1761 went to See also:London and started a periodical See also:work, entitled The Universal Museum, which was dropped by the See also:advice of See also:Samuel See also:Johnson.

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