Thomas Young [Ubiquity Young]

(1848 fl.)

LBT ID: ThYoung1838
SOURCES: William Jerdan, Autobiography (1852-53); Notes & Queries (14 November 1903) 391
Private secretary and personal “spy” to Lord Melbourne; originally he was purser on the Duke of Devonshire's yacht. He obtained his sobriquet by being omnipresent at social gatherings.
REFERENCES TO Thomas Young [Ubiquity Young]: Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 13 May 1836 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 1 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch 20: Lord Munster Found 1: ¶ 3 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter IV. 1838-41. Found 1: ¶ 15 Creevey, Thomas, 1768-1838, The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Ch XIII: 1835-36