Wayland Young, 2nd Baron Kennet

Wayland Hilton Young, 2nd Baron Kennet (known as the author under the name Wayland Kennet ; born August 2, 1923 , † May 7, 2009 ) was a British politician, journalist and publicist.

family

Wayland Young was born to the sculptor Kathleen Scott and the conservative politician Hilton Young, 1st Baron Kennet ; he was a half-brother of Peter Markham Scott . His mother's first marriage was to the polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott . Young lived in the London house where JM Barrie had written Peter Pan . The sculptor Emily Young and the writer Louisa Young are his daughters, he also has the son William Aldus Thoby , who inherited the title after his death, and three other daughters.

Life

Young attended Trinity College at the University of Cambridge , where he studied architecture. From 1942 to 1945 he served in the Royal Navy . After the war he studied in Perugia and at Harvard University . When his father died in 1960, he inherited his title Baron Kennet and the associated seat in the House of Lords .

Young was the foreign correspondent for The Observer newspaper in Rome and North Africa, as well as an employee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Housing. He has authored several books on political subjects. His 1964 work, Eros denied, pioneered the Sexual Revolution in Great Britain .

As a member of the House of Lords, Young dealt with foreign policy issues, including arms control . In the 1970s he was a member of the European Parliament . He belonged to the Labor Party from 1956 , but was an opponent of the influence of the trade unions in the party. In 1981 he switched to the SDP , which was founded as a Labor split ; He returned to Labor in the late 1980s. He was a sharp critic of Tony Blair's foreign policy .

When he lost his hereditary seat in the House of Lords with the House of Lords Act 1999 , he ran for the Labor Hereditary Peers by-election in the House of Lords, but was defeated.

Works

• The Italian Left. A short history of political Socialism in Italy , 1949
• The Montesi Scandal , 1957
• Strategy for Survival. First steps in nuclear disarmament , 1959
• The Profumo Affair , 1963
• Eros denied , 1964, 2nd ed. 1968 (German translation: Der verleugnete Eros , 1966, 2nd extended edition 1968)

Web links

• Obituary in The Daily Telegraph
• Obituary in The Independent
• Wayland Young at Hansard (English)

predecessor	Office	successor
Hilton Young	Baron Kennet 1960–2009	William Young