Sir George Young, 2nd Baronet (1797–1848) was a British Royal Navy officer who served 1818–1841.
George Young was born on 19 August 1797,[1] the oldest son of Sir Samuel Young, 1st Baronet.
On 11 April 1811, in his 14th year, he entered the Royal Navy. He became a Lieutenant in 1818 and between October 1825 - May 1826 he was the Commanding Officer of the "Beaver", a 10 gun sloop[2] on the Jamaica Station in the Caribbean.[3] He was promoted to Captain on 23 November 1841.
He succeeded his father to the baronetcy on 14 December 1826[1] and married Susan Praed, the sister of Winthrop Mackworth Praed,[4] on 23 June 1835.[2] They went on to have six children, 5 boys and one girl,[5] the oldest of their sons became the third baronet and the father of Geoffrey Winthrop Young[6] and another, William Mackworth Young became the Lieutenant-Governor or the Punjab.
Following the Slavery Abolition Act, Young was involved in a compensation claim[1] relating to the release of 353 enslaved people from Baillie's Bacolet, Grenada.[7] Young was one of two trustees "for parties interested under the marriage settlement of Miss Collin Campbell Baillie (1781-1830)" who had married Edward Lloyd in London in 1816 and was the daughter of James Baillie[8] who had owned Baillie's Bacolet estate until his death in 1793.[9] The claim, in 1836, amounted to £8985 17s 2d.[7]
George Young died at Formosa Place, Cookham, Berks, on 8 February 1848.[2] He is commemorated by a memorial wall tablet in Holy Trinity Church, Cookham[10] there is also a tablet which commemorates his youngest brother, Edward Lloyd who drowned in the Thames at the age of 7.[11]
