YOUNG, WILLIAM CURLING, was the eldest son of G. F. Young, M.P. for Tynemouth, who was a director of the New Zealand Company. He came to Nelson in the Mary Ann in 1842 and was appointed a justice of the peace (22 Mar 1842), but shortly withdrew. He acted for some time as immigration agent for the settlement, receiving the Company's ships and settling the emigrants and accounts. Young kept a very interesting diary of events on the voyage. His letters from the settlement are in the Victoria College Library. Young was drowned in the Wairoa river on 14 Aug 1842.

N.Z.C., 31; Broad; E. J. Wakefield, ii, 260.

Reference: Volume 2, page 271

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