William Young (1840-1907)
Mr Young was a well-known oil and gas expert and scientist.
1840 Born[1] in Selkirk.
Became manager of the Clippens Oil Co
1871 William Young 31, Manager Paraffin Oil Works, Employing 28 Men, lived in Duddingston with Catherine Young 34, John Young 4[2]
1870s With George Thomas Beilby of the Oakbank Oil Co, an oil shale company, they increased the yield of oil, ammonia, and other useful materials from the shale by retorting and fractional distillation improvements.
1881 Manager "Pantland ", lived in Lasswade, Midlothian with his family[3]
1882 The Young and Beilby retort was patented.
After leaving the Clippens Oil Company, he became a consulting adviser on all matters connected with the oil and gas industry.
1885 Young and Beilby received a gold medal for invention in respect of improvements in the distillation of shale oils.
1891 A chemical engineer, living in Galashiels, Selkirkshire[4]
His final patent, in conjunction with Mr Samuel Glover, manager of St Helens Gas Works, was for the application of the principle of vertical retorting to the manufacture of illuminating gas.
1901 Residing at Peebles: William Young (age 60 born Galashiels), Chemical Engineer.[5]
1907 Died at Priorsford, Peebles.
Newspaper items which presumably related to the establishment and lectures of the William Young Memorial Fund and Lecture:
1910 "The President paid eloquent tribute to the memory of the late Mr William Young, consulting chemical engineer, Peebles, the memory of whose life and work the Association have decided to perpetuate by the inauguration fund to ...[6]
1910 At a meeting of the North British Association of Gas Managers, "He spoke of the William Young memorial fund, and said perhaps never will the gas industry, or oil industry, or both combined, give scope to any one man to work out each a consecutive series of problems as those to which Mr Young devoted his life energies[7]
1910 "A letter from the secretary of the William Young Memorial asking for a contribution was read, when it remitted to the Manager to ascertain what was being done by other Corporations"[8]
1910 "YOUNG MEMORIAL. In the report of the Council it was stated that capital sum of £600 was required for the Young Memorial Lectureship Fund, and that up to date £425 had been subscribed.[9]
1913 ... welcome to the Association on behalf of the Greenock Corporation. Several interesting papers were read. The William Young Memorial Lecture . was delivered by Mr. W. B. Davison, of Birmingham, on the possible economies in gas production.[10]
1921 ".... Managers will be held in Perth on Sept. 8. and we note with more than ordinary interest that the William Young Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Mr. William Newton Booth, B.Sc., Royal Gas Factory, Woolwich Arsenal, on The application, of scientific ..."[11]
1928 ... of the South Metropolitan Gas Company, London, delivered the William Young Memorial Lecture on the subject of Coal Carbonising problems. He referred to the almost supernatural vision of the man in whose memory the lecture was delivered.[12]
1938 William Young Memorial Lecture at the British Association of Gas Managers (sic)[13]
1941 Dean Chandler, chief technical officer, South Metropolitan Gas Co., London, in the course of the “William Young Memorial” lecture at the annual meeting of the North British Association of Gas Managers, in the North British Station Hotel[14]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Gravestone
- ↑ 1871 census
- ↑ 1881 census
- ↑ 1891 census
- ↑ 1901 Census
- ↑ Fife Free Press 30 July 1910
- ↑ Broughty Ferry Guide and Advertiser 12 August 1910
- ↑ Coatbridge Leader 07 May 1910
- ↑ Dundee Evening Telegraph 28 July 1910
- ↑ Newcastle Daily Chronicle 05 September 1913
- ↑ Halifax Evening Courier 31 August 1921
- ↑ Edinburgh Evening News 06 September 1928
- ↑ The Engineer 1938/09/16
- ↑ Edinburgh Evening News Friday 05 September 1941
- [1] Scottish Shale