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THOM'S IRISH WHO'S WHO
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Educ. privately, Sligo; m. Mary Cottenham, dau. of the late John Phillip White. Represented in Municipal Gallery, Harcourt Street, Dublin, by The Maggie Man; Empty Creels; The Old Slave; The Day of the Sports; The Melodeon Player; A Rogue. Pubns.: The Broadsheet Monthly, 1902-1903; Life in the West of Ireland, 1912; and Broadside Monthly, 1908-1917. Address: 61 Marlborough Road, Donnybrook, Dublin. Club: United Arts.

YEATS, William Butler, Hon. D.Litt. (University of Dublin); b. Dublin, June 13th, 1865; son of J. B. Yeats, artist. Pubns.: Poems, 1895 (T. Fisher Unwin), and various later volumes of lyrics and dramatic poetry which are now included in "Later Poems," 1922 (Macmillan), and "Plays in Prose and Verse," 1922 (Macmillan); his chief newer writings are "Reviews on Childhood and Youth," 1916 (Macmillan); Per Amica Silentia Lunæ, 1918 (Macmillan); "The Cuttings of an Agent," 1919. Clubs: Savile Club, London; Stephen's Green Club, Dublin.

YEILDING, Col. William Richard, C.B. (1908), C.I.E. (1395), D.S.O. (1891), Col. I.A. (ret.); served in Afghan War, 1879-80: Marri Expedition, 1880; Mahsood-Waziri Expedition, 1881; Hazara Campaign, 1888; Tirah and Bazar Valley Expeditions, 1897-8; Khyber Field Force, 1898; Somahland Field Force, 1903-4; eldest son of late Hugh Yeilding, of Woodlands, Co. Kerry: b. 1856; m. 1881, Theresa, dau. of late Richard Magrath Fitzgerald, of Limerick. Res.: 2 Kent Gardens, Ealing, London, W. 13. Junior United Service Club.

YOUNG, Colonel Charles Augustus, C.B. (1919), C.M.G. (1916); Col. Army Medical Service. Educ.: privately; entered Army Medical Service, 1887; Major, 1899; Lieut.-Col. 1911; Col. 1915; served Burmese Campaign, 1900-2; European War, 1914-19, as Assistant-Director of Medical Services; son of late Col. William Young, of Kilinalogne, Portarlington. Queen's Co.; b. 1863; m. 1913, Rosa, eldest dau of late James Young, of Harristown, Castlerea, Co. Roscommon, and has issue two sons and one dau. Res.: Red Hatch, Ascot, Berks.

YOUNG, Filson, Author; Editor of the "Saturday Review"; was special War Correspondent of the "Manchester Guardian" in S. African War, 1899-1901; Assistant Editor of "The Pilot," 1901-3; Literary Editor of The "Daily Mail," 1903-4; Editor of the "Outlook," 1904; assisted in organising the Australian Hospital, to which he acted as Hon. Secretary, European War, 1914, and accompanied it with the British Expeditionary Force to France: in October, 1914, returned and received a Commission as Lieut, in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve; on the staff of Vice-Admiral Sir David Beatty in H.M.S. Lion, November, 1914-April 1915; staff of H.M.S. Victory, Portsmouth, June-November, 1915; War Correspondent, B.E.F. France, November, 1916-March, 1917; Special Correspondent of "The Times" in Spain and Portugal 1917-19. Pubns.: various songs and instrumental works; contributions to the principal weekly, monthly, and quarterly reviews; The Relief of Mafeking, 1900; Five Lyrics; A Volunteer Brigade; Mastersingers, 1901; contribution to Encyclopædia Britannica, 1902; Ireland at the Cross Roads, 1903; The Complete Motorist, 1904; Edited Herrick's Works, 1904; The Sands of Pleasure, 1905; The Happy Motorist, 1906; Venus and Cupid, an impression in prose after Velasquez in colour, 1906; Christopher Columbus and the New World of Discovery (2 vols.), 1908; The Wagner Stories, 1907; The Jov of the Road, 1907; The Lover's Hours, 1907; When the Tide Turns, 1908; Memory Harbour, 1909; More Mastersingers, 1911: Titanic, 1912; Opera Stories, 1912; Letters from Solitude, 1912; With the Fleet, 1913; New Leaves, 1914; With the Battle Cruisers, 1921. Youngest son of Rev. William Young, of Ballyeaston, Co. Antrim, and Sarah, dau. of late Alexander Bell Filson, of Portaferry, Co. Down; b. at Ballyeaston, 1876; m. 1918, Vera,, only dau. of Col. Claude Rawnsley, C.M.G., C.B.E.. D.S.O., of London, and has issue two sons. Res.: 124 Ebury Street, London, S.W.1. Club: St. James's.

YOUNG, George Lawrence, F.S.I.; D.L., J.P. Co. Donegal (High Sheriff, 1914); J.P. Cos. Antrim and Londonderry. Educ,: Royal School, Armagh, Trinity College, Stratford-on-Avon and T.C.D.; Chairman Irish Branch Surveyors' Institution, 1921: Agent for Skinners Co., Co. Derry, 1883-91; Lord O'Neill's Estates, Co. Antrim, 1890-1920; Adair Estate, Ballymena, from 1905. Recns.: shooting, fishing, golf; eldest son of late Robert George Young. M.A., J.P., of Culdaff House, Co. Donegal; b. 1859; m. 1883, Annie, dau, of Lieut.-Col. Gardiner Harvey. Res.: Culdaff House, Culdaff, Co. Donegal; Millmount, Randalstown, Co. Antrim.

YOUNG, John William. Educ.: Wellington College, Trinity College, Oxford (B.A. 1883, Trinity College VIII, 1883-84); Vice-Pres. Wyoming Loan and Trust Co., Wyo., U.S.A., 1887-1890; Vice-Pres., Pacific Investment Co., Salt Lake City, Utah, 1890-1904; Pres. and Gen. Manager, San Peter Valley Ry. and Morrison Coal Mines, Utah, U.S.A., 1904-1907; D.L. and J.P. Queen's Co.; b. 25th Jan., 1861; only son of the late Wm. Young, D.L., J.P., Queen's Co., and J.P. Co. Galway, of Brockley Park, Stradbally, Queen's Co. Recns.: shooting, fishing, big game hunting. Res.: Brockley Park, Stradbally, Queen's Co, Club: Sports Club, London.