John Lorenzo Young
Australian head teacher
John Lorenzo Young (30 May 1826 in London – 26 July 1881 at sea) was an English-Australian educationalist and founder of the Adelaide Educational Institution.
Early life
Young was born in London, a son of John Tonkin Young (1802 – 10 April 1882), a builder from Veryan, Cornwall.
He was educated at the Communal College of Boulogne, under Professor Opel at Wiesbaden, in 1842 at the College for Civil Engineers in Putney, and at King's College London from 1843 to 1845, where John Howard Clark, editor of The Register, was a fellow student. Another reference says this fellow-student was Clark's brother A. Sidney Clark.
Career
He worked in Cornwall on railway and mining construction then left for Adelaide on the ship Panama, arriving on 31 October 1850. A fellow passenger was W. W. R. Whitridge, with whom he was to strike a lasting friendship. He joined the rush to the Victorian goldfields but soon returned.
In 1851, he became second master at the newly established South Australian High School, but by the end of the year the venture had failed. Andrew Garran, who later published Garran's Book Almanack, was also involved in the project.
Headmaster Charles Gregory Feinaigle (c.
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