It's Background Time!

Lets get into some background information about Thomas Young. He was born in Milverton on June 13, 1773! He was the first of ten! Thomas young didn't have a great connection with his parents. His father, Thomas senior, was a mercer or in today's terms a cloth merchant and a banker from the village of Milverton. Thomas Youngs' mother, Sarah, was an only child of a very well respected merchant. Thomas only lived with them for periods at a time which would at the longest be a couple months. Which means he moved around a lot due to the lack of space and most likely due to the bad connection with his parents.  His parents were also Quakers, which in plain terms mean they lead a very boring non fun life. They would wear plain black and broad hats. Noted to be "of the strictest of a sect, whose fundamental principle it is, that the perception of what is right or wrong, to its minutest ramifications, is to be looked for in the immediate influence of a supreme intelligence, and that therefore the individual is to act upon this, and lead where it may, and compromise nothing."- Gurney (A Quaker who knew the Young's personally). Since, Thomas Young didn't like being a Quaker he stopped being one in his mid twenties and married a non Quaker and joined the Church of England. Through out Thomas Youngs' childhood, there was only one person who Thomas noted, Dr Richard Brocklesby. He was his mothers uncle and he was a well connected London physician who indeed would have a huge effect on his nephews life.