Charles Mayne Young

(1777-1856)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Young, Charles Mayne, 1777-1856 DNB: Young, Charles Mayne (1777-1856), actor LBT ID: ChYoung1856 VIAF ID: 2030963 LOC ID: no91014496	B/BAP: 1777-01-10 DIED: 1856-06-29
SOURCES: DNB; Prance, Companion to Charles Lamb (1983); Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
English Shakespearean actor who began his professional career in 1798; he was admired in Hamlet. He was a friend of Sir Walter Scott.
REFERENCES TO Charles Mayne Young: Walter Scott to Daniel Terry, 10 November 1814 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 John Whishaw to Thomas Smith, 7 May 1817 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ n3 John Murray to Lord Byron, 13 May 1817 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter VII 1809-10 Found 1: ¶ 22 Chapter X 1814-15 Samuel Rogers to Sarah Rogers, January 1845 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Found 1: ¶ 2 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 14: Literary Gazette Found 1: ¶ 3 Ch. 10: Anecdotes Found 1: ¶ 10 Ch. 15: Learned Societies Found 1: ¶ 35 Peter George Patmore, My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) William Hazlitt X Found 4: ¶ n1 ¶ 11 ¶ 12 ¶ n1 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter IV. Found 2: ¶ 3 ¶ 4 Chapter V. Found 1: ¶ 123 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter I Found 1: ¶ 7 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter V. 1842-44. Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chapter XV. Whishaw, J. (John), 1764 or 5-1840, The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Chapter V: 1817 Found 1: ¶ n3