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{{Short description|Irish politician and vice-regal representaive for several British colonies (1807–1876)}}
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| honorific-prefix = [[The Right Honourable]]
| name = The Lord Lisgar
| honorific-suffix = [[Order of the Bath|GCB]] [[Order of St Michael and St George|GCMG]] [[Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council|PC]]
| image = John Young, 1st Baron Lisgar.png
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| order1 = [[Chief Secretary for Ireland]]
| term_start1 = 1 March 1853
| term_end1 = 30 January 1855
| monarch1 = [[Queen Victoria|Victoria]]
| primeminister1 = [[George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen|The Earl of Aberdeen]]
| predecessor1 = [[Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo|Lord Naas]]
| successor1 = [[Edward Horsman]]
| order2 = 12th [[Governor of New South Wales]]
| term_start2 = 1861
| term_end2 = 1867
| monarch2 = [[Queen Victoria|Victoria]]
| predecessor2 = [[William Denison|Sir William Denison]]
| successor2 = [[Somerset Lowry-Corry, 4th Earl Belmore|The Earl Belmore]]
| order3 = 2nd [[Governor General of Canada]]
| primeminister3= [[John A. Macdonald|Sir John A. Macdonald]]<br /> and [[William Ewart Gladstone]]
| term_start3 = 2 February 1869
| term_end3 = 25 June 1872
| monarch3 = [[Queen Victoria|Victoria]]
| predecessor3 = [[Charles Monck, 4th Viscount Monck|The Viscount Monck]]
| successor3 = [[Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava|The Earl of Dufferin]]
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1807|08|31}}
| birth_place = [[Bombay]], [[Bombay Presidency]], [[British India]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1876|10|6|1807|08|31}}
| death_place =  [[Bailieborough]], [[County Cavan]], [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|Ireland]]
| nationality = British and Irish
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| education = [[Eton College]]
| alma_mater = [[Corpus Christi College, Oxford]]
| spouse = Adelaide Dalton (d. 1895)
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'''John Young, 1st Baron Lisgar''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|GCB|GCMG|PC}} (31 August 1807 – 6 October 1876) was a British diplomat and politician. He served as [[Governor General of Canada]] (1869–72), [[Governor of New South Wales]] (1861–67) and as [[Chief Secretary for Ireland]] (1853–55). From 1848 to 1870 he was known as Sir John Young, 2nd [[Young baronets|Baronet]].

==Biography==
Young was born into an [[Anglo-Irish]] family in [[Bombay]], India, eldest son of [[Sir William Young, 1st Baronet, of Bailieborough Castle|Sir William Young]], 1st [[Baronetage of the United Kingdom|Baronet]] of [[Bailieborough Castle]], who was a director of the [[East India Company]]. He was educated at [[Eton College|Eton]] and [[Corpus Christi College, Oxford]], graduating in 1829 and was [[called to the bar]] in 1834. He married Adelaide Annabella Tuite Dalton in 1835.<ref name=adb>{{Australian Dictionary of Biography|last=Ward|first=John M. |year=1967|id=A060488b|title= Young, Sir John [Baron Lisgar] (1807–1876)|access-date=1 February 2010 }}</ref>
In 1831 he became a [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]], as member for the county of Cavan in the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom]], a position he held for 24 years. In 1841 he was a Lord of the Treasury for [[Robert Peel|Sir Robert Peel]], Secretary of the Treasury in 1844 and Chief Secretary for Ireland from 1852 to 1855.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article63513420 |title=HIS EXCELLENCY SIR JOHN YOUNG, K.C.B., G.C.M.G. GOVERNOR OF NEW SOUTH WALES. |newspaper=[[Illustrated Sydney News|Illustrated Sydney News (NSW : 1853 – 1872)]] |location=NSW |date=16 April 1867 |access-date=2 May 2012 |page=3 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref> Young was appointed [[Lord High Commissioner]] to the [[United States of the Ionian Islands|Ionian Islands]] in 1855. His secret despatches recommending that the islands become a British colony were leaked, leading to his recall in 1859.<ref name=adb/>

Young was appointed [[Governor of New South Wales]] in 1860 and was immediately confronted by a crisis stemming from the attempt by the Secretary for Lands, [[John Robertson (New South Wales Premier)|John Robertson]], to push radical [[Robertson Land Acts|land legislation]] through the [[Parliament of New South Wales|Parliament]]. This legislation was passionately opposed by the majority of the [[New South Wales Legislative Council|Legislative Council]]. Young agreed to the request of the [[Premier of New South Wales|Premier]], [[Charles Cowper]], to swamp the council with new 21 appointees to get the legislation through, although in fact sufficient members of the Council resigned that a quorum could not be formed, forcing it to be prorogued and replaced by a new Council with appointed life members. In due course this passed the land legislation. The rest of his term in New South Wales was less eventful.<ref name=adb/>

Young assumed the office of [[Governor General of Canada]] in 1868, when it was vacated by fellow [[Irishman]], the [[Charles Stanley Monck, 4th Viscount Monck|4th Viscount Monck]], but did not officially take up the position until his swearing in on 2 February 1869. After the end of his term in 1872, he returned to Ireland.

He was raised to the [[peerage]] as '''Baron Lisgar''', of Lisgar and Bailieborough, in the County of Cavan, on 26 October 1870.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=23667 |date=11 October 1870 |page=4414}}</ref>

He died on 6 October 1876 at Lisgar House (also known as [[Bailieborough Castle|Castle House]]), near [[Bailieborough]] in [[County Cavan]], Ireland, survived by his wife.<ref name=adb/> Although Lady Lisgar married once more, she and Lord Lisgar are buried in Bailieborough Church of Ireland Graveyard, Bailieborough, County Cavan.

==Family==
[[File:Lady Lisgar by William James Topley.jpg|thumb|left|Lady Lisgar by [[William James Topley]]]]
John Young married, on 8 April 1835, Adelaide Annabella Dalton, daughter of Edward Tuite Dalton of [[Fermor]], [[County Meath]], Ireland, and his wife, Olivia, daughter of Sir John Stevenson (who married, secondly, [[Thomas Taylour, 2nd Marquess of Headfort|The 2nd Marquess of Headfort]], K.P., P.C.). Dalton's date of birth is unknown however she was likely to have been born between 1811 and 1814.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Tuite-Dalton-5|title = Adelaide Annabella (Tuite-Dalton) Mills (Abt.1811-1895) &#124; WikiTree FREE Family Tree}}</ref> Her husband was raised to the peerage, as Baron Lisgar in 1870, and died on 6 October 1876. On 3 August 1878 Baroness Lisgar married her second husband, Sir Francis Charles Fortescue Turville of Bosworth Hall, [[Leicestershire]]. She married her third husband, Henry Trueman Mills, of Lubenham, [[Market Harborough]]. She died at Paris on 19 July 1895.<ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Morgan |editor-first=Henry James |editor-link=Henry James Morgan |title=Types of Canadian Women and of Women who are or have been Connected with Canada |location=Toronto |publisher=Williams Briggs |date=1903 |url=https://archive.org/details/typesofcanadianw01morguoft |page=[https://archive.org/details/typesofcanadianw01morguoft/page/205 205]}}</ref>

==Legacy==
* [[Lisgar Collegiate Institute]] on Lisgar Street in [[Ottawa]] takes its name from Lord Lisgar. A likeness of Lord Lisgar is prominently displayed in the school's library.
* Lisgar Street in [[Toronto]] and Lisgar Avenue in [[Saskatoon]] takes its name from Lord Lisgar.
* In [[Mississauga, Ontario]], a community in the [[Meadowvale, Ontario|Meadowvale neighbourhood]] has been called ''Lisgar''. In the fall of 2007, a new [[Lisgar GO Station]] was opened on the [[Milton line|Milton GO train line]], and a ''Lisgar Middle School'' in the neighbourhood within the [[Peel District School Board]].
* The Sir John Young Hotel in Sydney, Australia is named after the baron
* Sir John Young Crescent, Woolloomooloo, Australia is named after the baron
*The town of Young, NSW was named after the baron.
*The lake in Tillsonburg Ontario was named after the Baron.  Lake Lisgar.

==Arms==
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|escutcheon = Argent three piles Sable each charged with a trefoil slipped Or on a chief Sable three annulets Or and in canton the augmentation of a baronet being an inescutcheon a dexter hand erect couped at the wrist and appaumé Gules.
|crest = On a wreath Argent and Sable a demi-lion rampant Gules charged on the shoulder with a trefoil slipped Or holding in the dexter paw a sprig of three maple leaves all Proper.
|motto = Prudentia}}

==Notes==
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==References==
* [http://www.gg.ca/document.aspx?id=15404 Website of the Governor General of Canada]

== External links ==
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* {{Hansard-contribs | mr-john-young | John Young }}
*[http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/scripts/large.php?accessnumber=I-49906.1&Lang=1&imageID=265463 Photograph: Baron Lisgar in 1870. McCord Museum]
*[http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/scripts/large.php?accessnumber=I-49909.1&Lang=1&imageID=265464 Photograph: Baron Lisgar in 1870. McCord Museum]
*[http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/scripts/large.php?accessnumber=I-60131&Lang=1&imageID=142345 Photograph: Lady Lisgar in 1870. McCord Museum]

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