YOUNG
,
THOMAS
(
1507
-
1568
),
archbishop of York
;
b. at
Hodgeston, Pembs.
He entered
Broadgates Hall
,
Oxford
, graduating
B.A.
June 14 1529
,
M.A.
March 19 1553
,
B.C.L.
Feb. 17 1538
, and
D.C.L.
Feb. 13 1566
, and becoming
head of his hall
,
1542-6
. He became
vicar
of
Llanfihangel Castell Gwallter
(
Llan-
fihangel-genau'r-glyn
),
Cards.
, in
1541
,
rector
of
Hodgeston
and of
Nash
,
1542
,
prebendary
of
Trallong
,
1545
, and of
Tregaron
,
1560
. Elected
precentor
of
S. Davids
in
1542
, he took up residence in
1547
, and became a leader of the faction opposed to
bishop
Robert
Ferrar
(q.v.)
. Said to have fled abroad in
Mary
's reign, no trace of his exile remains in Continental archives. In
1559
, he was
one of the royal visitors of the Welsh dioceses
, and was elected
bishop
of
S. Davids
,
6 Dec. 1559
. On
Parker
's recommendation, he was elected
archbishop
of
York
,
27 Jan. 1561
. As
archbishop
and
president of the council of the North
, he was
active in forwarding the Elizabethan settlement
, though he incurred censure for his misuse of the temporalities of his see. He d.
26 June 1568
, and was buried in
York Minster
. He m. (1), a daughter of
George
Constantine
(q.v.)
; (2)
Jane
Kynaston
,
Estwick, Staffs.
, by whom he had one son,
Sir
George
Young
.
Bibliography:
-
Oxford Dictionary of National
Biography
;
-
Calendar of State Papers, Domestic
Series
, Record Publication
and
Calendar of…State Papers…relating to the
negotiations between England and Spain
. Record
Publication, 1862 ff
;
-
Foxe
,
Acts and Monuments of these latter and
perilous days
, 1563, etc
;
-
Garrett
,
The Marian Exiles, a study of the origins of
Elizabethan Puritanism
, 1938
;
-
Le Neve
,
Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae
(rev. by ) , 1854
;
-
Wood
,
Athenae Oxonienses
, 1813–20. Sometimes
cited in the first (1691-2) edn
;
-
E. Yardley
,
Menevia Sacra. Arch. Camb.
, Supplement,
1927
.
Author:
Sir Glanmor Williams, M.A., Swansea
