| Hubert Winthrop Young | |
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| Born | 1885 Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales |
| Died | 20 April 1950 Evora, Portugal |
| Nationality | United Kingdom |
| 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, (1885-1950) was an English soldier, politician, diplomat and colonial governor.
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Born in 1885, Young was educated at Eton before being commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1904.[1] After four year he was transferred to the Indian Army as an officer in the 116th Mahrattas.[2] Young served on the north west frontier becoming an assistant political officer in Mesopotamia during the first world war.[2] He was awarded the DSO for gallantry in Mezerib, Syria in September 1918.[1]
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.[2] He was later appointed Colonial Secretary at Gibraltar.[2] In 1929 he moved to Iraq and in 1932 was appointed the first Minister of Baghdad.[2] After a few months he was appointed Governor of Nyasaland the first of three governorships:
Young had been knighted in 1934 and in 1942 he returned to London where he organised European relief work until he retired in 1945.[2]
He wrote the sympathetic book The Independent Arab, a part-memoir, part-travelogue detailing his diplomatic and military time in the Middle East.
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. [2]
Young had married Margaret Rose Mary Reynold in 1924 and they had three sons, Young died in Portugal on 20 April 1950.[2]