Keith Young

Not to be confused with Keith Yeung.

Keith Downes Young
Photographic portrait of Keith Downes Young.
Born	12 September 1848 Richmond, Surrey, England
Died	1 December 1929(1929-12-01) (aged 81)
Resting place	Highgate Cemetery
Education	Tonbridge School
Occupation	Architect

Keith Downes Young (12 September 1848 - 1 December 1929) was an English architect best known for designing hospitals and school sanatoria.

Biography

Keith Downes Young was born in King's Road, Richmond, Surrey on 12 September 1848.[1] He attended Tonbridge School, after which, in 1865,[2] he was articled to his father, George Adam Young.[3] He studied at South Kensington School of Art and the Architectural Association.[3]

He commenced independent practice in London in 1871 and entered into partnership with his father the following year.[4] By 1886 he had entered into partnership with the church architect, Henry Hall, and their practice acquired a reputation for designing hospitals and school sanatoria.[3] The partnership of Young and Hall was considered to be the pre-eminent British architects in the designing of hospitals. By 1922 sixteen hospitals had been built to their designs and over thirty-five others had been remodelled and rebuilt under their direction.[5]

Young practiced for over fifty years, advising on approximately forty hospitals, either as new buildings or alterations,[1] including the Middlesex Hospital, the Royal Eye Hospital, the Hospital for Epilepsy and Paralysis, the Chelsea Hospital for Women and Guy's Hospital Medical School.[3] Young held long-term positions as architect to the London Fever Hospital and the Middlesex Hospital. He was also appointed as Honorary Architect to the Royal Eye Hospital.[5]

Keith Downes Young died on 1 December 1929 and was buried on the eastern side of Highgate Cemetery.

Selected works

Hospitals:[3]

• Derbyshire Royal Infirmary, Derby
• Royal Eye Hospital, Southwark
• Victoria Hospital for Children, Tite Street, Chelsea
• Evelina Hospital for Children, Southwark
• Royal Dental Hospital, Leicester Square
• East Sussex Hospital, Hastings
• Great Northern Hospital, Holloway
• Hampstead General Hospital, Pond Street, Hampstead
• Bolingbroke Hospital, Battersea
• Chelsea Hospital for Women, Dovehouse Street
• London Fever Hospital, Islington (Isolation Block)[6]
• Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital, Gray's Inn Road
• Maida Vale Hospital, Maida Vale
• Chest Hospital, Putney
• Miller Hospital, Greenwich
• Middlesex Hospital, Marylebone

School Sanatoria:[3]

• Harrow School, Harrow
• Clifton College, Bristol
• Shrewsbury School, Shrewsbury
• Sherborne School, Dorset
• Blundell's School, Tiverton

Other works:[3]

• Evening Standard Building, Shoe Lane, City of London
• Dunsley Hall, near Whitby, North Yorkshire
• Extension to Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Fields

Gallery

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  Derbyshire Royal Infirmary.
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  Victoria Hospital for Children, Chelsea.
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  Hampstead General Hospital, Pond Street, NW3.
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  Bolingbroke Hospital, Battersea.
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  Grave of Keith Young in Highgate Cemetery.

References

1. "Keith Downes Young". Who's Who 1922. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U219640. Retrieved 5 September 2022.
2. "K D Young & Hall". Dictionary of Scottish Architects. Retrieved 5 September 2022.
3. Gray, Stuart (1985). Edwardian Architecture, A Biographical Dictionary. London: Gerald Duckworth. p. 394. ISBN 1-85326-908-5.
4. "Keith Downes Young". Dictionary of Scottish Architects. Retrieved 5 September 2022.
5. Notable Londoners, an Illustrated Who's Who of Professional and Business Men (1922), London: London Publishing Agency, page 13; accessed 20 July 2024.
6. "London Fever Hospital, New Isolation Block". The Builder. 22 December 1883.