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David Young
In 1936, David Young was born in Davenport, Iowa. He earned a BA from Carleton College, and an MA and PhD from Yale University.
Young is the author of several collections of poetry, including Field of Light and Shadow (Alfred A. Knopf, 2010); Black Lab (Alfred A. Knopf, 2006); At the White Window (Ohio State University Press, 2000); Night Thoughts and Henry Vaughan (Ohio State University Press, 1994), which won the Ohio State University Press/The Journal Award in Poetry; The Planet on the Desk: Selected and New Poems 1960–1990 (Wesleyan University Press, 1991); Foraging (Wesleyan University Press, 1986); Earthshine (Wesleyan University Press, 1988); The Names of a Hare in English (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1979); Work Lights: Thirty-Two Prose Poems (Cleveland State University Press, 1977); and Boxcars (Ecco Press, 1973).
Young’s first collection, Sweating Out the Winter (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1969), was selected by William Stafford, Isabella Gardner, and Stanley Kunitz for the United States Award of the International Poetry F
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David Young, Baron Young of Graffham
British politician (1932–2022)
David Ivor Young, Baron Young of Graffham, CH, PC, DL (27 February 1932 – 9 December 2022) was a British Conservative politician, cabinet minister, businessman, and life peer.[2] He served as Secretary of State for Employment and for Trade and Industry, and later reported to government on health and safety, small business and government procurement.
Early life
David Young was born into an orthodox Jewish family in London. His father was born in Yurevich, near Minsk, a village that is now in Belarus but was then largely populated by Lithuanian Jews, including Young's own family. The family fled an antisemitic pogrom to England when David's father was 5.[3]
In England, Young's father imported flour and later set up as a manufacturer of coats for children. Young went to Christ's College in Finchley and then University College London, to take a law degree as an evening student during his time as an articled clerk to become a solicitor, being admitted to the roll of
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YOUNG, DAVID (1844 - 1913), Wesleyan minister and historian
Name: David Young
Date of birth: 1844
Date of death: 1913
Gender: Male
Occupation: Wesleyan minister and historian
Area of activity: History and Culture; Religion
Author: Griffith Thomas Roberts
Born near Haverfordwest, 3 November 1844. While he was still young the family moved to Pontlotyn where he, too, worked in the colliery for a time. He was admitted to the Wesleyan ministry in 1868 and served in the following circuits: Carmarthen (1868), Aberystwyth (1869-71), Machynlleth (1872), Merthyr Tydfil (1873-5), Aberdare (1876-8), Llanidloes (1879-81), Cardiff (1882-4), and Ferndale (1885-7). He was elected chairman of the South Wales province in 1880. He pleaded for the union of the Welsh and English Wesleyan churches in South Wales - 'the amalgamation' as it was called - and when he discovered how determined the opposition of his fellow-countrymen in the province was to this move, he went over to the English side of the work. After some time in the Loudon Square, Cardiff (1888-90), English circuit, he
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