Sir Samuel Young, 1st Baronet

Sir Samuel Young, 1st Baronet (1766–1826) FRS, British colonial administrator with the East India Company.

[2][7] At some point the benefit to a substantial debt from the Nabobs of the Carnatic Sultanate had been transferred to Samuel Young.

[8] In 1809 the debt due to Young was 10,000 Madras Pagodas, which in UK sterling, with interest added, was c. £7854, the modern day equivalent would be about £10 million.

[9] Geoffrey Winthrop Young, who was Samuel Young's great-grandson wrote that Samuel was “small, narrow, obstinate, quarrelsome, a hedonist, and with the one merit of artistic taste and connoisseurship, which led to his fine collection of stones, jewels, pictures, shells, etc.

[10] However, Samuel was dead before either Winthrop Young or his father were born and their antipathy towards their own close ancestor ought be set against commonly held views which arose in the latter part of the eighteenth century about men who had enriched themselves through the East India Company,[11] and who were even subject to satire on the stage in productions like Samuel Foote's play The Nabob.