Richard Young (bishop of Athabasca)

For other people with the same name, see Richard Young (disambiguation).

Richard Young
Bishop of Athabasca
Church	Church of England
Diocese	Athabasca
Installed	1883
Term ended	1903
Predecessor	William Bompas
Successor	George Holmes
Personal details
Born	(1843-09-07)September 7, 1843 baptized in Sculcoates, England
Died	July 12, 1905(1905-07-12) (aged 61) Southborough, Kent, England
Denomination	Anglican
Parents	Anthony William Young
Spouse	Julia Heurtley Harrison
Children	Juliet Mary, Arthur William, Walter, Eirene Isabel, Richard Frank Welfitt Young
Occupation	Anglican missionary and Bishop
Education	Louth Grammar School
Alma mater	Clare College, Cambridge

Richard Young (September 7, 1843 – July 12, 1905) was a bishop in Rupert's Land. Young was born and educated in England. After being ordained as a priest in the Church of England in 1869, Young moved with his wife Julia Heurtley Harrison (1844-1934) to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1875, where they started a family. In 1883 he became bishop of the see of Athabasca in present-day northern Alberta, the first Anglican bishop to be consecrated in western Canada. In 1903 he resigned as bishop due to ill health and returned to England, where he lived until his death in 1905.

One of his sons was Lieutenant Walter Young, a former pupil at Monkton Combe School, who was killed on 30 May 1908 in the Mohmand Expedition on the North West Frontier.

Through his daughter Juliet Mary, Richard Young was the grandfather of the composer Walter Heurtley Braithwaite.^{[citation needed]}

References

• Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online