Young, Peter

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Dates 1603-1628
Location London; Quernmore, Lancashire
Vocation Tutor; politician
Place of Birth Dundee
Marriage Elizabeth Gibb; Joanna Murray; Marjory Nairne
Issue 8 sons; 8 daughters
Place of birth Source Oxford Dictionary of National Biography; Lancashire Archives, Hare Appletree Mss, DDX/610/1

Co-tutor to James VI, and later his ambassador to Denmark, as well as king's almoner and privy councillor. Accompanied James to England (1603). Tutor to Prince Charles (1604). Granted future lease of Quernmore, Lancashire by James VI (1606), but sold his rights (1607).