George Samuel Knatchbull Young, Baron Young of Cookham, (born 16 July 1941), known as Sir George Young, 6th Baronet, from 1960 to 2015, is a British
Conservative Party
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politician who served as a
Member of Parliament
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(MP) from
1974 to
2015, having represented
North West Hampshire
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History
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from
1997
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and
Ealing Acton from 1974 to 1997. He has served in
Cabinet on three occasions: as
Secretary of State for Transport from 1995 to 1997; as the
Leader of the House of Commons
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and
Lord Privy Seal from 2010 to 2012; and as
Chief Whip of the
House of Commons
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from 2012 to 2014.
He stood down from the Commons
at the 2015 election and was created a
life peer, as Baron Young of Cookham, ''of
Cookham
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in the Royal County of Berkshire'', on 29 September 2015. He sits on the Conservative benches in the
House of Lords
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, where he served as a junior whip from July 2016 to August 2019. Young
resigned
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from this position on 29 August in protest at Prime Minister
Boris Johnson
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's decision to prorogue parliament. He served as a minister under five conservative Prime ministers (
Margaret Thatcher
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,
John Major,
David Cameron,
Theresa May
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and
Boris Johnson
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).
Early life
Young was born in
Oxford
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in 1941 into a prominent English family, the elder son of Sir George Peregrine "Gerry" Young, 5th Baronet and Elisabeth Knatchbull-Hugessen. His paternal ancestors and cousins include Admiral Sir
George Young, an admiral in the Royal Navy and father of the first Baronet; civil servant 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 K ...
; colonial governors Sir
Hubert Winthrop Young
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Early life and army
Born on 6 July 1885, Young was the second son of colonial administr ...
and Sir
Mark Aitchison Young
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Early life, service in ...
; mountaineer
Geoffrey Winthrop Young
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Young was born in Kensington, the middle son of Sir George Young, 3rd Baronet (see ...
, and
Hilton Young, 1st Baron Kennet
Edward Hilton Young, 1st Baron Kennet, (20 March 1879 – 11 July 1960) was a British politician and writer.
Family and early life
Young was the youngest son of Sir George Young, 3rd Baronet (see Young baronets), a noted classicist and chari ...
. Sir Brian Young (1922–2017), director-general of the
Independent Television Authority
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, was his cousin.
Young's father was a diplomat who met Elisabeth while serving in
Beijing
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(where her father,
Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen, was
British Ambassador). He had saved his future wife's life during an aerial shooting attack in 1937. Upon his father's death in 1960, George succeeded to the
baronet
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cy created in 1813.
Young is a great-great-grandson of
Frederick Lygon, 6th Earl Beauchamp
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Background and education
Beauchamp was the third son of Hen ...
.
Education and early career
Young was educated at
St. Aubyns Preparatory School in Rottingdean,
Eton College
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, and
Christ Church, Oxford, where he read
Philosophy, Politics and Economics, graduating in 1963 (and later proceeding to
MA). He was active in student politics while at
Oxford
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, holding various offices in the
Oxford University Conservative Association
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and being elected to the Standing Committee of the
Oxford Union
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.
After graduating, he worked for a while at the merchant bank
Hill Samuel
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, and then at the
National Economic Development Office
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from 1966 to 1967.
He then spent two years as Kobler
Research Fellow
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at the
University of Surrey, where he completed an
MPhil.[ From 1969 to 1974, Young was an economic advisor to the Post Office Corporation.
]
Career in local politics
Young was elected as a councillor in the London Borough of Lambeth from 1968 to 1971 together with his wife and also the future British Prime Minister John Major. He represented the ward of Clapham Town, and served on the Housing Committee. He and other Lambeth councillors worked as refuse collectors at weekends during a strike. Young lost his seat on Lambeth Council in 1971.
In 1970
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, Young was elected to the Greater London Council (GLC) as one of four Members for the London Borough of Ealing
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. He served on the GLC from 1970 to 1973, where he was vice-chairman of the Strategic Planning Authority. He did not seek re-election to the GLC in 1973, having been selected as the Conservative candidate for the Acton constituency. He was later one of the local government ministers who abolished the GLC in 1986.
Parliamentary career
Member of Parliament
Young was elected to parliament at the February 1974 general election as MP for Acton with a majority of 1,300, defeating the sitting Labour Party MP, Nigel Spearing
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(who was returned to Parliament a few weeks later after winning a by-election
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in Newham South). Young was re-elected as MP for Acton at the October 1974 general election with a majority of 808. He continued to represent Acton (renamed Ealing Acton in 1983) for the next 23 years, until the seat was abolished in boundary changes. He was selected for the safe Conservative seat of North West Hampshire
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History
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prior to the 1997 general election to replace the retiring MP Sir David Mitchell (the father of Andrew Mitchell
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whom Young would, in 2012, succeed as Chief Whip). Young was elected with a majority of 11,551, and served as the MP for North West Hampshire until his retirement in 2015.
Posts
From 1976 to 1979 Young served as an opposition whip. When the Conservative Party won the 1979 general election, he was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State
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at the Department of Health and Social Security
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Hi ...
. From 1981 to 1986, Young served as the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for the Environment.
On the backbenches from 1986 to 1990, Young was among the leaders of the rebellion within the Conservative Party against the implementation of the poll tax. Shortly before leaving office in 1990, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
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brought Young back into government as a whip ( Comptroller of the Household) as part of her attempts to reunite the party.
When John Major became Prime Minister in November 1990, he gave Young the role of Minister for Housing and Planning. Shortly after, during an interview for BBC Radio 4
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's ''Today
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'' programme in June 1991, Young described the homeless as "the people you step over when you come out of the opera". In 1992 when asked during parliamentary discussions of the Armley Asbestos Disaster for financial assistance in surveying local housing in the Armley area for residual asbestos, Young responded that the government would not provide financial assistance to the home owners or the council to pay for decontamination as this "would not be a justifiable use of public funds".
Young then served as Financial Secretary to the Treasury
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from 1994 to 1995, and in Cabinet as Secretary of State for Transport from 1995 to 1997. He was appointed a privy counsellor
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in 1993. Following the Conservative Party's defeat in 1997, Young was appointed Shadow Defence Secretary
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Shadow S ...
by the new party leader, William Hague
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. In 1998, Young became Shadow Leader of the House of Commons. In 1999, he was given additional responsibilities as Spokesman for Constitutional Affairs. He was a member of the Modernisation Select Committee and of the House of Commons Commission
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from 1998 to 2000.
Young resigned from the Shadow Cabinet in September 2000 in order to stand for election as Speaker of the House of Commons Speaker of the House of Commons is a political leadership position found in countries that have a House of Commons, where the membership of the body elects a speaker to lead its proceedings.
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. Fourteen MPs put their names forward to succeed the retiring Betty Boothroyd
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, and many observers considered Young to be the favourite. He had support from both the Conservative and Labour leadership; however, many backbench MPs, particularly those from the Labour Party (who held a large majority in the House at the time), viewed Young as someone who had too recently been a member of his party's front bench team and was thus not sufficiently in touch with ordinary MPs. In the end, Young was not elected as Speaker, the members of the House choosing instead Labour MP Michael Martin.
From 2000 to 2009, Young remained on the backbenches. He was elected chairman of the House of Commons Committee on Standards and Privileges
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in 2001, and was re-elected to that role in 2005.
Young stood again for the position of Speaker of the House of Commons in 2009, finishing second in the ballot of MPs to fellow Conservative MP John Bercow
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. In the first ever secret ballot of MPs to choose the new Speaker, Bercow defeated Young in the final round of voting by a margin of 322 to 271.
On 8 September 2009, Conservative party leader David Cameron appointed Young to the front bench again, taking up his former role of Shadow Leader of the House of Commons, replacing Alan Duncan
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who had held the post since January 2009. He became Leader of the House of Commons
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and Lord Privy Seal on 12 May 2010 after the Conservative Party formed a coalition government with the Liberal Democrats following the 2010 general election. In this role, he attended Cabinet meetings, but not as a full member.
Young left government in the reshuffle of September 2012, and David Cameron recommended his appointment as a Companion of Honour. However, his return to the backbenches was short-lived, as following Andrew Mitchell
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's resignation as Chief Whip the following month, Cameron chose Young to replace him.[ ]
Young is Patron of the Tory Reform Group
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and the All-Party Parliamentary Group
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on Cycling.
In October 2012 it was reported that Young supported a new group of Conservative MPs established to reconnect the Tories with working class voters. The Blue Collar Conservatism group aims to develop policies to attract "aspirational" voters on average incomes whose support is "vital" to winning a Commons majority.
On 29 November 2013 Young announced he would stand down as an MP at the 2015 general election. He again retired from the cabinet at the 2014 reshuffle, replaced as Chief Whip by Michael Gove. Gove described Young as 'distinguished' and 'honourable'.
Tower block housing
Young was a vocal critic of tower block housing, saying in 1974: "Nearly all local authorities have now stopped building this type of accommodation, as it is generally recognized they provide an inadequate environment for those who have to live in them. But it is no consolation to the many thousands who will have to live on these estates for the foreseeable future to know that the mistake will not recur." One measure proposed by Young was to make grants and subsidies available to minimize "some of the disadvantages of living on estates containing tower blocks." He described tower block housing as "an economic and social disaster" and said he would "like an assurance that loan sanction would not be given for any more."
Domestic violence
In February 1975 Young was appointed to the newly formed select committee on Violence in the Family. The committee's terms of reference were "To consider the extent, nature and causes of the problems of families where there is violence between the partners or where children suffer non-accidental injury: and to make recommendations." The committee issued an interim report in September 1975 and was instrumental in setting up several government research reports into domestic violence. In 1976 he sponsored the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill which allowed victims of rape to remain anonymous.
Cycling
In 1982 Young and his children appeared on a British Rail poster alongside Jimmy Savile to promote new measures to allow people to take their bicycles on trains more easily.[ Young had made a critical speech in Parliament about the provisions for cyclists to take their bikes on trains, and when British Rail implemented new measures they invited Young to appear on the publicity poster. An ever-enthusiastic cyclist, the British media nicknamed Young the "Bicycling Baronet".
]
House of Lords
Young was created a life peer as Baron Young of Cookham, of Cookham
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in the County
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of Berkshire, on 29 September 2015. He sits on the Conservative
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benches of the House of Lords
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.
In July 2016, he was appointed as Lord in Waiting
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(i.e. government whip). In September 2016, he was named to serve as Treasury spokesman in the House of Lords. On 29 August 2019, Young resigned as a whip in the House of Lords in protest at Prime Minister Boris Johnson's decision to suspend parliament.
Personal and family life
Young succeeded as 6th baronet in 1960 and married Aurelia Nemon-Stuart, daughter of the sculptor Oscar Nemon
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, at Oxford in 1964.
They have four children: Sophia (b. 23 May 1965), George (b. 11 October 1966), Hugo Patrick (b. 23 September 1970) and Camilla (b. 1975). His elder son, the Hon. George "Gerry" Young, is heir apparent
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to the family baronetcy
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. The family grew up in Cookham
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, attending Holy Trinity Primary School in Cookham and Furze Platt
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secondary school in Maidenhead.
Lord Young supports the west London football club Queens Park Rangers (QPR) and has served as a churchwarden
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and a member of a diocesan synod
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in the Church of England
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.
Titles, honours, styles and arms
Styles
* 1941–1960: Mr George Young
* 1960–1974: Sir
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George Young
* 1974–1993: Sir George Young
* 1993–2012: The Rt Hon
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Sir George Young
* 2012–2015: The Rt Hon Sir George Young
* 2015: The Rt Hon Sir George Young
* 2015–present: The Rt Hon The Lord Young of Cookham
Honours
*
: Baron
*
: Baronet
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* : Companion of Honour
Arms
Ancestry
See also
* Young baronets ''of Formosa Place''
* Sustrans
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References
External links
Sir George Young Bt MP
– Official constituency website
*
Profile
parliament.uk. Accessed 24 December 2022.
Profile: George Young
bbc.co.uk. Accessed 24 December 2022. , ''BBC News
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'', 30 March 2006.
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Profile
Burkespeeerage.com. Accessed 24 December 2022.
''The Rt Hon. The Lord Young of Cookham CH''
debretts.com. Accessed 24 December 2022.
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