Andrew Young (1885-1971) was born in Elgin and went to school, university and theological college in Edinburgh. In 1920 he moved to Sussex where he spent the rest of his fife. As a clergyman he started his career as a Presbyterian minister and concluded it as a Canon in the Church of England. Among his honours he received the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry (1952) and an honorary L.L.D (Edinburgh, 1951).