W. A. G. Young

[1][2] W. A. G. Young enlisted in the Royal Navy in 1841 aged about 14 as a midshipman clerk, rising to purser, paymaster, and secretary to two commodores over the next ten years.

Navy List, August 1855, p. 231 This would be return of the fleet under Admiral Dundas after Napier had been censured for not destroying Sveaborg in the Baltic Campaign of the Crimean War.

On p. 141 this is HMS Blenheim, Screw steam Guard Ship at Portsmouth, with Captain Fred T. Pelham in command, so he was effectively Captain's secretary with rank as "additional paymaster"[5] Pelham also commanded the Blenheim in the Baltic 14 August 1853 - 18 November 1854, and at Portsmouth 5 June 1856 - 21 November 1857.

The commission was established in 1856 according to the terms of the Northwest Boundary Treaty (signed in 1846) between the U. S. and Britain, to survey and define the border between British and U.S. territories in the American north-west Pacific region.

The Hecate sailed from Portsmouth[citation needed] in September for New Caledonia, arriving in Victoria, Vancouver Island in June 1857.

[7] New Caledonia was not much more than a loosely defined trading area with a population of about one hundred, administered by the Hudson's Bay Company, whose regional chief executive was James Douglas, also Governor of Vancouver Island.

The massive influx of some twenty to thirty thousand people, mostly American, during the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush led to James stationing a gunboat (HMS Satellite,[8] commanded by Captain James Prevost) at the mouth of the Fraser River, although he had no legal authority outside Vancouver Island.

were separated as colonies in 1863 and then re-united in 1866;his father-in-law James Douglas had retired as governor in 1864 and returned to Scotland; they kept close ties.

Alfred Karney Young (1864—1942) held judicial and political offices in numerous colonies, serving, inter alia, as Chief Justice of Fiji.