Charles Young (officer of arms)

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Sir Charles George Young (1795-1869) served in the heraldic office of Garter King of Arms, the senior member of the College of Arms in England from 1842 until his death in 1869.
He began his service in the college at a young age, and became York Herald in 1820. When he was promoted to Garter King of Arms, his cousin Edward Howard Howard-Gibbon succeeded him in his old post. Sir Charles wrote a number of books and pamphlets in the course of his service, including Catalogue of the Arundel Manuscripts in the College of Arms in 1829, and The Order of Precedence in 1851
His mother, Mary Waring, was an illegitimate daughter of Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk, and so he was educated under the sponsorship of the Howard family. He served faithfully right up to his final days, when he died 1 September 1869