Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Architect, of Belfast. James Reid Young, the younger of the two sons of ROBERT MAGILL YOUNG  ROBERT MAGILL YOUNG by his wife, Eleanor, daughter of James Reid of Belfast, was born in 1884. He attended Belfast Royal Academy and Campbell College, Belfast,(1) and served his articles in the family practice of YOUNG & YOUNG & amp; MACKENZIE. MACKENZIE. (2) He then spent some time in London, studying at the Architectural Association and working as an assistant in the offices of Sir ASTON WEBB ASTON WEBB . Subsequently, from October 1909, he worked for McKim, Mead & White in New York.  Exactly when he returned to Belfast is not clear but it was certainly by the spring of 1914. During the First World War he served as an adjutant at Le Havre with the rank of captain. After the war he returned home and by 1923, if not earlier, had become the junior partner in the family practice, in which he was to remain for the rest of his career, succeeding his father as head of the firm in 1925..

Young died in 1967 and was buried with other members of his family in Balmoral Cemetery, Belfast.   He had married Elizabeth Muriel Malone, a Belfast Quaker, in 1922, as a result of which he broke the family's Presbyterian connection by becoming a Quaker himself. He had no children.  In addition to his architectural interests, he was active in the Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society, in the Belfast Reform Club and in the Freemasons

AA: elected member, 1907.(3)
RIBA: passed preliminary exam, June 1904;(4) elected associate, 7 Jun 1920;(5) elected fellow, 1927, having been proposed by THOMAS WILLIAM HENRY THOMAS WILLIAM HENRY , Sir ASTON WEBB  ASTON WEBB and Maurice E. Webb.(6)
RSUA: elected student member, 1904;  president, 1943-44.(7)

Addresses: Work: Scottish Provident Buildings, Belfast.
Home: Rathvarna, Chichester Park, Antrim Road, Befast.

See WORKS; see also YOUNG & YOUNG & amp; MACKENZIE. MACKENZIE.



References

All information in this entry not otherwise accounted for is from Who's Who in Architecture (1923), 283, and Paul Harron, Architects of Ulster: Young & Mackenzie, a transformational provincial practice 1850-1960 from (Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 2016), 54-61.  


(1) Building News 118, 12 Mar 1920, 192.
(2) Records of Campbell College, Belfast, kindly supplied by Keith Haines; RSUA Year Book(1968), 78'. Harron's statement (p.55)  that Young was articled to Sir Aston Webb appears to be incorrect.
(3) List of members in Architectural Association Year Book & Diary (1930).
(4) RIBAJ 11 (1903-4), 480.
(5) RIBAJ 27 (1919-20), 391.
(6) RIBAJ 34 (1926-27), 498.
(7) List of past office bearers in RSUA Jubilee Year Book 1951-1952, 5


2 work entries listed in chronological order for YOUNG, JAMES REID


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Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, BELMONT ROAD, CAMPBELL COLLEGE
Date: 1920
Nature: Memorial screen in central hall and cross in quadrangle commemorating 585 old Campbellians who served in WWI of whom 119 were killed. Designed by James Reid Young, a former pupil of the school. Estimated cost of screen £1000. Estimated cost of cross: £700.  Contractor for screen: Henry Laverty & Sons.  Sculpture by Rosamund Praeger. Unveiled by General Sir Alexander Godley,  6 or 7 Apr 1923.
Refs: IB 61, 6 Dec 1919, 554; 62, 28 Feb 1920, 118; Building News 118, 12 Mar 1920, 192;  Paul Harron, Architects of Ulster: Young & Mackenzie, a transformational provincial practice 1850-1960 (Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 2016), 54(illus.), 55,224(illus.),361.

Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, BELMONT ROAD, CAMPBELL COLLEGE
Date: 1920
Nature: Memorial screen in central hall and cross in quadrangle commemorating 585 old Campbellians who served in WWI of whom 119 were killed. Designed by James Reid Young, a former pupil of the school. Estimated cost of screen £1000. Estimated cost of cross: £700.  Contractor for screen: Henry Laverty & Sons.  Sculpture by Rosamund Praeger. Unveiled by General Sir Alexander Godley,  6 or 7 Apr 1923.
Refs: IB 61, 6 Dec 1919, 554; 62, 28 Feb 1920, 118; Building News 118, 12 Mar 1920, 192;  Paul Harron, Architects of Ulster: Young & Mackenzie, a transformational provincial practice 1850-1960 (Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 2016), 54(illus.), 55,224(illus.),361.