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Sir George Young, 4th Baronet, was born on October 25, 1872, in Cookham, Berkshire, England, son of Sir George Young (1837-1930), a civil servant, reformer, administrator, and scholar.

He was a British diplomat, author, journalist, and professor. He was educated at Eton College and universities in France, Germany, and Russia. In 1889, Young entered the Diplomatic Service in an unusually varied series of postings like Attaché, Chargé d'Affaires, expert delegate and First Secretary, in Athens, Constantinople, Belgrade, Brussels, Madrid, Washington, and Lisbon. From 1915 to 1918, he served in an Admiralty Intelligence Unit. In 1918, he enlisted in the Honorable Artillery Company. He was a Daily News correspondent in Berlin (1918-1919), and, in 1920, he went to Moscow for the Daily Herald, where he met the Labour Party delegation. Joining the Labour Party in 1915, he became a member of its Advisory Committee on International Affairs. Young was an unsuccessful parliamentary candidate for South Bucks in 1923 and 1924. He later lived in Spain and during the Civil War was active on behalf of Spanish Medical Aid. He inherited his baronetcy in 1930. He taught political science and international law in several US colleges and universities. He was also a Professor of Portuguese and Examiner in Ottoman Law at London University. He published several books, e.g., "Portugal Old and New" (1917), “Diplomacy Old and New" (1921), and "Egypt" (1927). He also published under the pseudonym Yegor Yegorevitsch, e.g., "Trespassing on the Tsar" (1896).

In 1904, he married Jessie Helen Ilbert (1880–1946). He died on September 26, 1952, in Sonning, Berkshire, England.

Scottish-born George Rennie Young was the son of "Agricola," pen name of John Young, columnist for the Acadian Recorder in Nova Scotia, who had emigrated to Canada in 1814. He began as a journalist like his father, founding a weekly newspaper in Pictou, the Novascotian or Colonial Herald. He sold this in 1827 and studied law in Britain. Admitted to the Bar in 1834, he joined his brother William in practice in Halifax. He continued to write for newspapers, and in 1848 anonymously published The Prince and His Protégé, an eight-part romantic serial in the Halifax Morning Post. Earlier he also published The British North American Colonies (1834) and On Colonial Literature, Science and Education (1842-- a collection of twelve lectures).
He became involved in politics and represented Pictou County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1843 to 1851. From 1848 to 1851 he served as Minister without Portfolio on the Nova Scotia Executive Council.

Edward Hilton Young, 1st Baron Kennet, was born on March 20, 1879, in London, England.

He was a British politician and writer. He was educated at Eton, University College London, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was President of the Union Society and editor of the Cambridge Review. He was called to the Bar by the Inner Temple in 1904 and practised in the King's Bench Division and on the Oxford Circuit. Due to his illness, he gave up the legal career to pursue politics and journalism, becoming assistant editor of the Economist (1908-1910), financial editor of the Morning Post (1910-1914) and London correspondent of the New York Times financial supplement. In 1912, he published “Foreign Companies and Other Corporations” and, in 1915, “The System of National Finance,” which remained the standard textbook until 1939. In 1914, Young joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve and, in 1918, he lost his right arm in the attack on the Mole at Zeebrugge. For his service, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order, Distinguished Service Cross and Bar, French Croix de Guerre, and the Serbian Silver Medal. He published a book of war memoirs, "By Sea and Land" (1920). Young was elected Member of Parliament for Norwich (1915-1923, 1924-1929) and served as Financial Secretary to the Treasury (1921–1922). He was the British Representative at the Hague Conference on International Finance (1922) and went on financial missions for the British Government to India (1920), Poland (1924), and Iraq (1925, 1930). In 1926, he left the Liberals to join the Conservative Party and was Secretary for Overseas Trade in the National Government and Minister of Health (1931-1935). In 1935, he retired from politics and was created Baron Kennet of the Dene. Young was also chairman and director of many commercial and financial corporations.

In 1922, he married Edith Agnes Kathleen Bruce (1878–1947). He died on July 11, 1960, in Wiltshire, Wilts, England.

Andrew Young was born in 1861 in Ramsay, Lanark County, Ontario.

He was a mining engineer. He attended the Almonte High School in Ontario and the Science and Engineering Department of McGill University. After graduating with a degree of B.Sc., he began to work as a mining engineer and assayist in Montana, USA. As his health started to fail, he returned to Canada, where he died on April 16, 1895, in Ramsay, Lanark County, Ontario.