Hubert Winthrop Young
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Born |
Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales | 6 July 1885
Died |
20 April 1950 64) Evora, Portugal | (aged
Nationality | English |
Occupation | Soldier, diplomat and colonial governor |
Awards |
Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (1934) Distinguished Service Order (1919) Order of El Nahda, 3rd Class (Kingdom of Hejaz) (1920) |
Major Sir Hubert Winthrop Young, KCMG, DSO, (6 July 1885[1] – 20 April 1950)[2] was an English soldier, Liberal Party politician, diplomat and colonial governor.
Early life and army
Born on 6 July 1885, Young was educated at Eton before being commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1904.[3] After four year he was transferred to the Indian Army as an officer in the 116th Mahrattas.[4] Young served on the north west frontier becoming an assistant political officer in Mesopotamia during the first world war.[4] He was awarded the DSO for gallantry in Mezerib, Syria in September 1918.[3]
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.[4] He was later appointed Colonial Secretary at Gibraltar.[4] In 1929 he moved to Iraq and in 1932 was appointed the first Minister of Baghdad.[4] After a few months he was appointed Governor of Nyasaland, the first of three governorships:
- Malawi (Nyasaland) - Governor (22 November 1932 to 9 April 1934)
- Northern Rhodesia - Governor (1935–1938)
- Trinidad and Tobago - 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.[4]
He wrote the sympathetic book The Independent Arab, a part-memoir, part-travelogue detailing his diplomatic and military time in the Middle East.
Politics
Following his retirement he took an interest in politics and stood twice as a candidate in the 1945 general election at Harrow West for the Liberal Party and again at a by-election in Edge Hill, Liverpool in 1947 without success.[4]
Family life
Young had married Margaret Rose Mary Reynold in 1924 and they had three sons, Young died in Portugal on 20 April 1950.[4]
References
- ↑ http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/37077
- ↑ http://www.thepeerage.com/p56785.htm
- 1 2 http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/news/0300you.html Major Hubert Young at Archives Hub
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Major Sir H. Winthrop Young - An Able Colonial Administrator". Obituaries. The Times (51672). London. 22 April 1950. col F, p. 8.