John Matthew Wilson Young was an English organist. He was elder brother to William James Young, also a well-known English organist. John M.W. Young was buried in the cemetery at East Gate in Lincoln. He married Augusta Frushard, youngest daughter of Philip Frushard, the Governor of Durham Gaol, and Anna Maria Pewsey his wife, on 8 July 1851 at St. Paul's Church, Deptford, Kent.