Robert Young was born in Athlone and was educated at Queen's College, Belfast. He trained as an architect under his father, Robert Young. He was a member of the Royal Irish Academy and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. In 1895 he became co-editor for the Ulster Journal of Archaeology, 2nd series. He compiled Fighters of Derry, and edited the Town Book of Belfast and Belfast and Ulster in the Twentieth Century. He wrote Ulster in '98; and Historical Notices of Old Belfast. He was a Justice of the Peace.

Born:	1851
Died:	1925