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WILLIAM YOUNG, an English critic; born in Morvich, Sutherland, Feb. 22, 1825; was educated at Edinburgh Academy and Glasgow University, from which he passed to Balliol College, Oxford. In 1850 he was elected to a fellowship at Oriel; next acted as assistant professor at Durham, Glasgow (1851-1853), and St. Andrews 1853- 1859); filled for six years the Greek chair at St. Andrews; and was elected in 1863 to the Latin chair at Edinburgh, which he retained till his death near Dalry, Galloway, Oct. 12, 1890. He made his name widely known by his learned and brilliant book, "The Roman Poets of the Republic" (1863; revised and enlarged, 1881), which was followed by "The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age -Vergil" (1877), and "Horace and the Elegiac Poets" (1892), the latter edited from his papers by his nephew, Andrew Lang, with a brief memoir prefixed.