Hilton Young, 1st Baron Kennet

Hilton Young, 1st Baron Kennet (1935)

Edward Hilton Young, 1st Baron Kennet , GBE , DSC , PC (born March 26, 1879 in London - † July 11, 1960 ) was a British politician of the Liberal Party and later the Conservative Party , which among other things between 1915 and 1923 as well again from 1924 to 1935 member of the House ( House of Commons ) was. Between 1931 and 1935 he was Minister of Health. In 1935 he was raised to hereditary nobility as Baron Kennet and thereby became a member of the House of Lords .

Life

Lawyer, World War I and Member of the House of Commons

Young was the youngest of four children of lawyer and civil servant George Young, 3rd Baronet, and his wife Alice Eacy Kennedy. His eldest brother George Young, 4th Baronet, was a professor at the University of London and heir to the title of Baronet Young, of Formosa Place, bestowed in 1813. While his only sister Eacy Young died at the age of fifteen in 1888, his second oldest brother was the mountaineer, writer and educator Geoffrey Winthrop Young . He himself was baptized in the Parish Church in the London borough of Kensington and, after attending the renowned Eton College, studied at Trinity College at the University of Cambridge between 1897 and 1901 . After a legal education he received in 1904 his legal admission to the Bar ( Inns of Court ) from Inner Temple and then began working as a lawyer ( Barrister ) on. He was initially admitted to the bar in the King's Bench Division in the Oxford Judicial District, which is responsible for cases relating to contract law, bodily harm and general negligence, and during this time he obtained a Master of Arts (MA) from Trinity College, University of Cambridge in 1907 .

In addition to his work as a lawyer, Young was a reserve officer in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve and was called to active military service as a sea ​​lieutenant in the Royal Navy on board the battleship HMS Iron Duke at the beginning of the First World War in August 1914 . In a special election , he was on February 6, 1915, the Liberal Party for the first time as a member of the lower house ( House of Commons ) selected and represented in this until December 6, 1923 constituency Norwich . In October 1915, he was awarded the Karađorđe Medal Fourth Class with Swords and the Obilić Medal of the Kingdom of Serbia for his services . From May 31 to June 1, 1916, he took part in the Skagerrak Battle between the German deep-sea fleet and the Grand Fleet of the Royal Navy in the waters off Jutland and was subsequently transferred to the battleship HMS Centurion in 1916 , which he received in 1917 because of his services Distinguished Service Cross (DSC) awarded.

In the further course of the First World War Young was transferred to French Flanders , where he took part in the battles of Flanders in 1917 as a member of the naval rifle units and was awarded the French Croix de guerre . He was last promoted to corvette captain and took part in the attack on Zeebrugge on April 23, 1918 on board the protected cruiser HMS Vindictive , in which he was seriously wounded. Most recently, during the intervention of the Entente Powers in the Russian Civil War, he was the commander of an armored train during the occupation of Arkhangelsk .

Minister, House of Lords and Family

After the end of the First World War, Young took up his mandate as a member of the House of Commons and took over between 1919 and 1921 as Parliamentary Private Secretary from Minister of Education (President of the Board of Education) Herbert Fisher, his first government office. After a reshuffle of the government of Prime Minister David Lloyd George he was on April 21, 1921 Financial Secretary of the Treasury and held this office until October 19, 1922. He then served from October 19, 1922 to his leaving the house on 6 December 1923 as Parliamentary Secretary ( Chief Whip ) the fraction of the Liberal Party and was as such on 21 November 1922. Member of the secret Privy Council ( Privy Council ) appointed.

In the general election of October 29, 1924 , Young was re-elected to the House of Commons for the Liberal Party, where he initially represented the Norwich constituency again and, after the general election from May 30, 1929 to July 9, 1935, the Sevenoaks constituency in Kent . As the successor to Laming Worthington-Evans , he was also the editor of the Financial Times magazine from 1925 until his replacement by Oscar Hobson in 1929 . During this time he joined the Conservative Party in 1926 and also served as a British delegate to the Assembly of the League of Nations between 1926 and 1928 . For his many years of service, he was beaten on June 3, 1927 to the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE), so that from then on he carried the suffix "Sir".

After serving as Parliamentary Secretary for Overseas Trade from August 24 to October 28, 1931, in the first national government of Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald , Young served in the second national government between October 28, 1931 and June 7, 1935 from Prime Minister Macdonald to the post of Minister of Health . In 1932 he became honorary scholar ( Honorary Fellow ) at University College London (UCL) and the UK representative also again as a delegate in the Assembly of the League of Nations. In 1934, the University of Durham awarded him an honorary doctorate in civil law (Honorary Doctor of Civil Laws) .

After retiring from the House of Young was a Letters Patent of 15 July 1935 as the first Baron Kennet , of the Dene in the County of Wilts in the hereditary nobility ( Hereditary peerage ) the Peerage of the United Kingdom raised and thus a member the upper house ( House of Lords ) , where he remained until his death.

Marriage and offspring

The sculptress and widow of the polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott Edith Agnes Kathleen Bruce Scott was married to Hilton Young from 1922 until her death in 1922

Young married on March 3, 1922 in St. Stephen's Chapel in the London borough of Westminster the daughter of the clergyman Reverend Lloyd Stewart Bruce and his wife Jane Skene, the sculptor Edith Agnes Kathleen Bruce Scott , who was her first marriage to the on on the Ross- Ice shelf in Antarctica who died polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott was married.

From this marriage his only child, the politician, journalist and publicist Wayland Hilton Young emerged, who inherited the title of 2nd Baron Kennet after his death in 1960. Wayland Young was the father of six children, including the sculptor Emily Young , William Young, 3rd Baron Kennet and the writer Louisa Young .

Publications

• Foreign Companies and other Corporations , 1912
• The System of National Finance , 1915
• A Muse at Sea , 1919
• By Sea and Land , 1920
• A Bird in the Bush , 1936

Web links

• Hilton Young, 1st Baron Kennet at Hansard (English)
• Entry in Cracroft's Peerage
• Entry in Leigh Rayment Peerage
• Edward Hilton Young, 1st Baron Kennet on thepeerage.com , accessed July 24, 2018.
• PRIVY COUNSELLORS 1915-1968 in Leigh Rayment Peerage
• KNIGHTS AND DAMES in Leigh Rayment Peerage

predecessor	Office	successor
Title created	Baron Kennet 1935-1960	Wayland Hilton Young