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Richard Young (bishop of Athabasca)

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Richard Young
Bishop of Athabasca
ChurchChurch of England
DioceseAthabasca
Installed1883
Term ended1903
PredecessorWilliam Bompas
SuccessorGeorge Holmes
Personal details
Born(1843-09-07)September 7, 1843
baptized in Sculcoates, England
DiedJuly 12, 1905(1905-07-12) (aged 61)
Southborough, Kent, England
DenominationAnglican
ParentsAnthony William Young
SpouseJulia Heurtley Harrison
ChildrenJuliet Mary, Arthur William, Walter, Eirene Isabel, Richard Frank Welfitt Young
OccupationAnglican missionary and Bishop
EducationLouth Grammar School
Alma materClare 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]

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