Andrew Young was a Scottish poet and clergyman. His status as a poet was recognised quite late and he received the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1952. Andrew Young was born on 29 April 1885 in Elgin, Moray, where his father was stationmaster, but moved to Edinburgh while still an infant. He was educated at James Gillespie’s School, the Royal High School, and Edinburgh University where he read Moral Philosophy.

Young began writing poetry in early youth, and his first volume Songs of Night, heavily influenced by Swinburne and the Decadents, was published by his father in 1910. Between 1920 and 1931, seven further slim volumes of verse were published by his bookseller friend J. G. Wilson. He died on November 25 1971 in Bognor Regis, United Kingdom at the age of 86.