File 116 - G. Young

Sir George Young, 3rd Baronet, was born on September 15, 1837, in Cookham, Berkshire, England.

He was a British civil servant, reformer, administrator, and scholar. He succeeded his father to the baronetcy in 1848. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was President of the Cambridge Union in 1860. He was called to the bar by Lincoln's Inn in 1864 but never practised the law. In 1870, he was named one of three royal commissioners to inquire into the conditions of indentured Chinese and Indian labourers, brought in to work the sugar plantations of British Guiana after the abolition of slavery. Young was given the task of drafting a new immigration ordinance. He served as secretary to the royal commission on the Factory and Workshops Acts (1875–1876). In 1882, he was appointed a charity commissioner responsible for reorganizing educational charities provided for under the Endowed Schools Acts. From 1875 he was a member of the Council of University College, London (and president, 1881–1886), taking a prominent part in the Association for Promoting a Teaching University for London. In 1903, he was made chief charity commissioner for England and Wales. After he retired in 1906, he remained active in local government in Berkshire, promoting the charter for Reading University. He also published translations of the poems, e.g., "The Dramas of Sophocles Rendered in English Verse, Dramatic and Lyric" (1888) and "Poems from Victor Hugo in English Verse" (1901).

In 1871, he married Alice Eacy Kennedy (1840–1922). He died on July 4, 1930, in Cookham, Berkshire, England.

Agnes Margaret Young, née Anson, was born in about 1883 in Akaroa, Canterbury, New Zealand.

In 1912, she married Horace Edward Wilkie Young (1877-1914), a British diplomat. In 1923, she remarried Charles Evelyn David Gladstone (1870–1942), and in 1954, Capt. Henry Whyman (1881–1961). She died in about 1955 in England.

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.