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Sir Hubert Winthrop Young,

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politician, diplomat and colonial governor.

Early life and army

Born on 6 July 1885, Young was the second son of colonial administrator

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and his second wife, Frances Mary, daughter of Sir

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. Gerard's paternal grandfather was Sir George Young, 2nd Baronet. He was educated at

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before being commissioned into the

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in 1904.http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/news/0300you.html Major Hubert Young at Archives Hub After four year he was transferred to the

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as an officer in the 116th Mahrattas. Young served on the north west frontier becoming an assistant political officer in Mesopotamia during the first world war. He was awarded the DSO for gallantry in

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in September 1918.

Diplomat

In 1919 Young joined the Foreign Office in London, after three years he was transferred to the Colonial Office as an assistant secretary in the Middle East Department. He was later appointed Colonial Secretary at Gibraltar. In 1929 he moved to Iraq and in 1932 was appointed the first Minister of Baghdad. He advocated for the creation of an independent

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. After a few months he was appointed Governor of Nyasaland, the first of three governorships: *

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(Nyasaland) - Governor (22 November 1932 to 9 April 1934) *

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- Governor (1935–1938) *

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- Governor (8 July 1938 - 1942) Young had been knighted in 1934 and in 1942 he returned to London where he organised European relief work until he retired in 1945. He wrote the sympathetic book ''The Independent Arab'', a part-

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detailing his diplomatic and military time in the

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Politics

Following his retirement he took an interest in politics and stood twice as a candidate in the 1945 general election at

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for the

and again at a

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in 1947 without success. In February 1947 he was part of a group of Liberal candidates from the 1945 elections who signed up in support of the pamphlet 'Design For Freedom' which sought a merger of Liberals with Conservatives creating a new centre party.

Family life

Young had married Margaret Rose Mary Reynold (d.1981) in London in 1924. Lady Young Road from

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to Barataria, Trinidad is named after her. They had three sons, Nicholas, Martin and Simon. Young died in Portugal on 20 April 1950. His elder brother was archaeologist and colonial official Gerard Mackworth Young, director of the

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; their younger brother was

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, twice Governor of Hong Kong.

References

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