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ARTHUR YOUNG (1741-1820)

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

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