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Between 1816 and 1823 he wrote sixty-three articles for the 

 1 Supplement to the Encyclopaedia Britannica,' Sixth Edition, of 

 which forty-six were biographical. In the year 1821 he made a 

 short tour in Italy with his wife, and, in August 1827, was elected 

 one of the eight Foreign associates of the Academy of Sciences at 

 Paris, in the place of Volta, who died in 1826 ; the other competitors 

 for this honour being the astronomers Bessel and Olbers, Brown 

 the botanist, Blumenback, Leopold, Von Buch, Dalton, and Plana 

 the mathematician. 



Dr. Young's course of life, considered apart from the variety of 

 his occupations, was remarkably uniform. He resided in London 

 from November to June, and at Worthing from July to the end of 

 October, continuing this regular change of residence for fourteen 

 successive years. In the year 1826 he removed from his house in 

 Welbeck Street, where he had resided for a quarter of a century, to 

 another in Park Square, which had been built under his own direc- 

 tions, and fitted up with great elegance and taste. He continued 

 to live here for the remainder of his life. During the month of 

 February, 1829, he began to suffer from what he considered repeated 

 attacks of asthma. His health gradually got worse, but though 

 thus under the pressure of severe illness, nothing could be more 

 striking than the entire calmness and composure of his mind, or 

 could surpass the kindness of his affections to all around him. In 

 the very last stage of his complaint, in an interview with Mr. 

 Gurney, his perfect self-possession was displayed in the most re- 

 markable manner. After some information concerning his affairs, 

 and some instructions concerning the hieroglyphical papers in his 

 hands, he said, that perfectly aware of his situation, he had taken 

 the sacrament of the Church on the day preceding ; that whether 

 he should ever partially recover, or whether he were rapidly taken 

 off, he could patiently and contentedly await the issue. His illness 

 continued, with some slight variations, until the morning of the 

 10th of May, when he expired without a struggle, having hardly 

 completed his fifty-sixth year. The disease proved to be an ossi- 

 fication of the aorta, the large arterial trunk proceeding from the 

 left ventricle of the heart. It must have been in progress for many 

 years, and every appearance indicated an advance of age, not 

 brought on probably by the natural course of time, nor even by 

 constitutional formation, but by unwearied and incessant labour of 

 mind from the earliest days of infancy. His remains were deposited 

 in the vault of his wife's family, in the church of Farnborough, in 

 Kent. Life of Thomas Young, M.D., &c., by Dr. George Peacock, 

 Dean of Ely. London, 1855. Memoir by Dr. D. Irving, Encyclo- 

 paedia Britannica, Eighth Edition. English Cyclopaedia. London, 

 1858. 



