John Young (25 June 1585 - 20 July 1654) was a Scottish clergyman who served as Dean of the Winchester Cathedral from 1616 until his ejection in 1645.
[1] John Young attended Saint Andrews University and had received his MA by 1606 when he was admitted to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.
[4] Early in his tenure, John was made a Royal Chaplain, and sent to Scotland multiple times "on His Majesty's Service.
During the Personal Rule of Charles I, Young was fully occupied with managing his chapter in Winchester, as his Calvinist opinions and Scottish birth caused some friction among members of the church.
[11] Afterwards, in a poem composed about the sacking of the town, the unknown author made much of the destruction of the church:[12] The Pope himselfe before this time had ne're So many superstitious Rites as there But now th'are to demolisht in that Towne That now, if ever; Popery goes downe ... Th' Organs uncas'd that everyone might see Whence they deriv'd so sweet an harmony So well they like'd them, that they did presume Each man to take a Pipe and play his tune Young was ejected from his deanery in 1645 amidst the conflict, and he then retired to Over Wallop in Hampshire.