John Lorenzo Young

Who was John Lorenzo Young?

John Lorenzo Young was an Australian school principal and teacher. Young was born in London, England and died at sea.

Young was also one of the founders of the Adelaide Philosophical Society, now named the Royal Society of South Australia.

John Lorenzo Young was born in London, the son of John Tonkin Young, a builder from Veryan, Cornwall.

He was educated at the Communal College of Boulogne, under Professor Opel at Wiesbaden, in 1842 at the Civil Engineering College in Putney, and at King's College London from 1843 to 1845, where John Howard Clark was a fellow student. Another reference says this fellow-student was Sidney Clark. He worked in Cornwall on railway and mining construction then left for Adelaide in 1850. on the ship "Panama", arriving on 31 October 1850. He joined the rush to the Victorian goldfields but soon returned.

In 1851 he became second master at South Australian High School, but the venture failed by the end of the year. Headmaster Charles Gregory Feinaigle, before 1860 spelled "Feinagle", opened a private academy at his residence "Brandon" on Unley Road, but was soon in Victoria, in a wide variety of vocations. He remained friends with J. L.