Person: Young (5), Andrew
Andrew Young graduated from Edinburgh and taught at St Andrews and London Universities. He then trained as a lawyer and worked as a solicitor in Edinburgh for the rest of his career.
Mathematical Profile (Excerpt):
- Andrew was educated at Townshead Public School, Montrose, where he spent trhree months, Broughton Public School, Edinburgh, where he spent two and a half years, then at George Watson's College, Edinburgh where he spent seven years.
- Young was appointed a Lecturer at the University of St Andrews in 1914 and then he moved to the University of London, again as a lecturer.
- In 1919, Young left the academic world and became the representative in Bremen, Germany, of Messrs S M Bulley & Son, Cotton Merchants of Liverpool.
- This major change in career was not the only one which Young made for, in 1926, he decided to change again, this time taking up law.
- In December 1913 Young joined the Edinburgh Mathematical Society.
- Young was elected to the Royal Society of Edinburgh on 1 March 1937, his proposers being Charles H O'Donoghue, Alexander Craig Aitken, Sir Ernest M Wedderburn,Sir Edmund T Whittaker.
Born 10 October 1891, Lanton, Jedburgh, Roxburghshire, Scotland. Died 20 July 1968, Edinburgh, Scotland.
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