Wayland Young

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Wayland Hilton Young, 2nd Baron Kennet (born August 2, 1923) is a British writer and SDP and Labour Party politician.

1 Life
2 Works
- 2.1 Bibliography
3 External links

[edit] Life

Young was born to the politician Edward Hilton Young, 1st Baron Kennet, and the sculptor Kathleen Scott, née Bruce, widow of Captain Robert Falcon Scott. His half-brother was Sir Peter Scott. He was educated at Stowe School and Trinity College, Cambridge. During World War II he served in the Royal Navy (1942-45). He then went on to the Foreign Office (1946-47, 1949-1951). He married Elizabeth Ann Adams in 1948 and had one son and five daughters.

Wayland Young inherited the title of Baron Kennet in 1960 upon the death of his father. He served in numerous national and international capacities over the years, as Parliamentary Secretary [Junior Minister]in the Ministry of Housing and Local Government. There he worked on Planning and Conservation, and was responsible for setting up the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution. After the fall of the Wilson Government, he became Chairman of the Council for the Protection of Rural England, of the Advisory Committee on Pollution of the Sea (ACOPS) and other organisations. He became Opposition Spokesman on Foreign Affairs in the House of Lords 1971-74; and was a member of the European Parliament. He was a member of Western European Union, and a NATO Parliamentarian. He was Chief SDP Whip, in the House of Lords 1981-83. He started his career in the Labour Party, then joined the SDP and returned to the Labour Party in the 1990s before leaving in opposition to Tony Blair's foreign policy.

[edit] Works

Young has published on a wide range of mostly political topics, especially on the politics of Italy, on disarmament and arms control, on the churches of London, and on various political scandals, notably the Profumo Affair and the Montesi scandal. His 1964 work Eros Denied was a groundbreaking manifesto of the sexual revolution.

[edit] Bibliography

The Italian Left, 1949
The Deadweight, The Cresset Press, 1952
Now or Never, The Cresset Press, 1953
Old London Churches (with Elizabeth Young), Faber & Faber, London, 1956
The Montesi Scandal: The Story of the Famous Murder That Rocked Modern Italy, Faber & Faber, London, 1957
Still Alive Tomorrow, 1958 (reprinted Panther, London, 1960)
The Socialist Imagination (with Elizabeth Young), Fabian Society, 1960 (pamphlet)
Disarmament: Finnegan's Choice (with Elizabeth Young), Fabian Society, 1961 (pamphlet)
Gogol's Wife & Other Stories (translator of work by Tommaso Landolfi; with Raymond Rosenthal, John Longrigg), New Directions, Norfolk, Connecticut, 1963.
Strategy for Survival, First steps in nuclear disarmament, Penguin Special, London, 1959
The Profumo Affair: Aspects of Conservatism, Penguin, London, 1963
Bombs and Votes, Fabian Society, 1964 (pamphlet)
Eros Denied: Sex in Western Society, Grove Press, New York, 1964 (other editions are subtitled "Studies in Exclusion")
Preservation, 1972
The Futures of Europe, 1976
The Rebirth of Britain, 1982
London's Churches: A Visitor's Companion (with Elizabeth Young), Grafton Books, London 1986, ISBN 0-88162-212-5
Northern Lazio: An Unknown Italy (with Elizabeth Young), 1990, ISBN 0-7195-4643-5