Charles Lawrence Young

Sir Charles Lawrence Young, 7th Baronet (31 October 1839 – 11 September 1887) was an English playwright, barrister, and baronet.[1]

Life and career

Young was the son of Sir William Young Bt MP.[2] He was educated at Cheltenham College and New College, Oxford, graduating BA in 1862.[3] He entered the Inner Temple in 1862, and was called to the bar in 1865.[4]

As a playwright his best known and most successful work was Jim the Penman (1866); a play young based on a real master criminal, James Townshend Saward, who had success as a forger. The play had successful stagings at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in London and on Broadway at the Madison Square Theatre.[1] The play was adapted into the silent films Jim the Penman (1915, Paramount Pictures) and Jim the Penman (1921, First National Pictures). A photograph taken of him by Camille Silvy is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery.[5]

Young died in Hatfield Peverel Priory, Essex on 11 September 1887.[2]

References

Citations

  1. 1 2 Lachman 2014, p. 69.
  2. 1 2 Bryan 1991, p. 1346.
  3. ↑ Foster, Joseph (1888–1891). "Young, (Sir) Charles Lawrence (Bart.)" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: James Parker – via Wikisource.
  4. ↑  Foster, Joseph (1885). "Young, Sir Charles Lawrence, Bart." . Men-at-the-Bar  (second ed.). London: Hazell, Watson, and Viney. p. 527.
  5. ↑ "Sir Charles Lawrence Young, 7th Bt". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved May 2, 2026.

Bibliography

  • Bryan, George B. (1991). Stage Deaths: A Biographical Guide to International Theatrical Obituaries, 1850 to 1990. Vol. II, K–Z. Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0313275937.
  • Lachman, Marvin (2014). The Villainous Stage: Crime Plays on Broadway and in the West End. McFarland & Company. ISBN 9781476618753.
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