John Young (Australian politician)

John Douglas Young (1842 – 16 November 1893) was a Scottish-born Australian politician.

He was born in Hamilton in Lanarkshire to miner William Young and Helen Wilson.

In 1865 he settled in Sydney, where he worked a number of jobs before purchasing a hotel around 1869.

On 27 March 1869 he married widow Margaret O'Brien Kelly, with whom he had a son.

He was appointed to the New South Wales Legislative Council in 1892, where he remained until his death in Sydney in 1893.