Simon Young (magistrate), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Pitcairn Islands politician
Date of Birth: 11-Aug-1823
Place of Birth: Adamstown, British Overseas Territories, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 26-Sep-1893
Profession: politician
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About Simon Young (magistrate)
- Simon Young (11 August 1823 – 26 September 1893) served as Magistrate of the British colony of the Pitcairn Islands in 1849.
- Young was the son of George Young, who in turn was the son of bounty mutineer Ned Young, his mother was Hannah Adams, a daughter of John Adams.
- Young married Mary Buffett Christian, his father-in-law John Buffett had arrived on the island in 1823 (the year Young was born) as a schoolteacher, and had stayed to help Adams teach the islands many children.
- Young himself was a schoolteacher by trade.
- He spent several years on Norfolk Island but returned to Pitcairn in 1864.
- Young's marriage produced 13 children, including two future Magistrates, Benjamin Stanley Young, William Alfred Young and Arthur Herbert Young, and the historian Rosalind Amelia Young.
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