Gerard Mackworth Young CIE (1884–1965) was director of the

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from 1936 to 1946. He was the eldest of four sons of Sir

William Mackworth Young Sir William Mackworth Young (15 August 1840 – 10 May 1924) was a member of the Indian Civil Service, who became Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab 1897–1902. Young was the son of Captain Sir George Young, 2nd Baronet. He attended Eton and Ki ...

(1840–1924), KCSI, JP, of the Indian Civil Service, who was Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab from 1897 to 1902, and his second wife Frances Mary, daughter of Sir Robert Eyles Egerton, KCSI, JP, Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab from 1877 to 1882. Sir Robert Egerton was nephew of the 8th and 9th

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. Gerard's paternal grandfather was Sir George Young, 2nd Baronet; the name 'Mackworth' came from his paternal grandmother, Susan, daughter of William Mackworth-Praed,

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, of that gentry family of

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. Gerard Mackworth Young assumed the surname of Mackworth-Young by deed poll in 1947. In 1916, he married Natalie Leila Margaret, daughter of Rt Hon Sir Walter Francis Hely Hutchinson, GCMG,

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and Commander-in-Chief,

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from 1901 to 1910, son of the 4th Earl of Donoughmore. The elder of their two sons (there being also two daughters) was the royal librarian Sir

Robin Mackworth-Young Sir Robert Christopher 'Robin' Mackworth-Young (12 February 1920 – 5 December 2000) was a British academic and librarian, who served as Royal Librarian between 1958 and 1985. Early life and education Mackworth-Young was the son of Gerard ...

.Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 1, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, pp. 1163-1164 His brothers Sir

Hubert Winthrop Young Major Sir Hubert Winthrop Young, KCMG, DSO (6 July 1885 – 20 April 1950) was an English soldier, Liberal Party politician, diplomat and colonial governor. Early life and army Born on 6 July 1885, Young was the second son of colonial administr ...

, KCMG and Sir

Mark Aitchison Young Sir Mark Aitchison Young (楊慕琦, 30 June 1886 – 12 May 1974) was a British Administrator of the Government, administrator who became the Governor of Hong Kong during the years immediately before and after the Japanese occupation of Hong K ...

, GCMG were also colonial administrators.

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