Memoir of the life of Thomas Young M.D., F.R.S. With a catalogue of his works and essays / [By Hudson Gurney].

  • Gurney, Hudson, 1775-1864.
Date:
1831
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Credit: Memoir of the life of Thomas Young M.D., F.R.S. With a catalogue of his works and essays / [By Hudson Gurney]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In 1787, the friends of Dr. Young were begin™ ning to think seriously of the line in life which might be most advantageously taken by a youth of such extraordinary promise. When at the house of one of his relations he accidentally met a connexion of Mr. David Barclay, of Youngs- bury, in Hertfordshire, who was then wishing to form an arrangement for the education of his grandson, and through the intervention of Sir William Watson, it was agreed that Dr. Young and the grandson of Mr. Barclay should pursue their studies together, under a private tutor, in Mr. Barclay’s house. The tutor who was engaged, found a situation of greater permanence, and never came; so that two boys being left together, whose ages differed only about a year and a half. Young, then little more than fourteen, took upon himself, provisionally, the office of preceptor. They were afterwards joined by a gentleman who was then in progress of perfecting himself in the higher branches of classical attainment, of somewhat maturer years, and who has since been known to the world as the author of the “ Calligraphia Grseca.” But Dr. Young did not relinquish the task which he had previously undertaken, and already far advanced beyond the limits of ordi-