An 1802 caricature of Young titled "A Negro Chieftain", referencing his ownership of slaves in the West Indies
Sir William Young, 2nd Baronet, FRS, FSA (December 1749 – 10 January 1815) was a British politician, colonial administrator and planter.[1] He was the governor of Tobago from 1807 – January 1815, and Member of Parliament for St Mawes, 19 June 1784 – 3 November 1806,[2] and Buckingham, 5 November 1806 – 23 March 1807.[3]
^E. I. Carlyle, 'Young, Sir William, second baronet (1749–1815)’, rev. Richard B. Sheridan, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [1]