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The Armidale School's New Headmaster

The Rev. H. P. Young, M.A., B.Litt., formerly headmaster of St. John's College, Palamcottah, South India, who is now in charge of The Armidale School, is an Australian by birth, and was educated at the Melbourne Grammar School. After doing a theological course at Moore College, Sydney, he was made a deacon by the Bishop of Bendigo in 1909, then went to England, and spent three years at the University of Durham, taking his B.A.and B.Litt. degrees. After ordination as priest in the Diocese of Norwich he spent three years at Cambridge (Emanuel College), taking his B.A. degree there with second-class honours in the Theological Tripos, and in 1920 he proceeded to the degree of M.A. From 1916 to 1918 he was educational missionary in Sierra Leone and was on the staff of Fourah Bay College. In 1918-1919 he was a chaplain to the Australian Infantry Forces, and the following year went to India as head masterof the college at Palamcottah, where he had from 500 to 600 boys on the roll, of whom about half were boarders. Mr. Young has been described by Dr. A.D. Lindsay, Master of Balliol College, and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University, as a first-class schoolmaster. It would seem from letters from the Bishops of Tinnevelly and Travancore that he went to Palamcottah when the school was almost ready to close. He moved the whole establishment five miles away to a better position, and rebuilt it at a heavy cost in face of incredulity and opposition, but he made a wonderful school of it. The Bishop of Travancore says that Mr. Youngholds very definite views on education, and though they have run counter to the popular views of those surrounding him, he Has been justified again and again. His wife also is a gifted teacher.

Sydney Mail Wednesday 16 December 1936 page 47

Moved back to England and was Vicar of Christ Church, Crewe, England and Vicar of Hargrave and Huxley, near Chester, England