Edward Young was an English Anglican priest in the eighteenth century: his senior posts were in Ireland.“A New History of Ireland Vol XI: Maps, Genealogies, Lists” by Theodore William Moody, F. X. Martin, Francis John Byrne, Art Cosgrove: Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1976
Young was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge.John Venn, John Archibald Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, Part 1 vol. 4 p. 492 (1922) He was Chaplain to George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, the Lord Lieutenant of IrelandClogher clergy and parishes : being an account of the clergy of the Church of Ireland in the Diocese of Clogher, from the earliest period, with historical notices of the several parishes, churches, etc" Leslie, J.B p35: Fermanagh, R.H. Ritchie 1929 who appointed him to the Deanery of Clogher in 1761."Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 3" Cotton, H. pp284 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878 In 1763 he became Bishop of Dromore.Atkinson, W. E. 'Dromore - An Ulster Diocese', P 69 in 1765 he was translated to Ferns."Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 2" Cotton, H. pp. 341/2 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878
He died in post at Ferns on 24 August 1772.
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