About Oliver Young
Lived 1855 – 1908 (aged 53). Oliver Young was a British politician and member of Parliament (United Kingdom).
Commander Oliver Young (11 July 1855 – 9 October 1908) was an English Royal Navy officer and later a British politician. He was the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Wokingham from 1898 to 1901.
Early life and Navy Young was born on 11 July 1855 at Wargrave in Berkshire, the son of Adolphus William Young a solicitor and later a Member of Parliament and his Australian wife Jane (née Throsby). He was educated at Burney's Naval Academy at Gosport and entered the Royal Navy in 1869. He died at his home at Hare Hatch in Berkshire on 9 October 1908.
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British politician (1855–1908)
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