Sir George Samuel Knatchbull Young, 6th Baronet, (born 16 July 1941, in Oxford, England) is a British politician. He is a Conservative Party Member of Parliament who has represented the constituency of North West Hampshire since 1997, having previously represented the constituency of Ealing Acton from 1974-97. He served in the Cabinet from 1995-97 as Secretary of State for Transport. He currently serves in the Shadow Cabinet as the Shadow Leader ...
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Sir George Samuel Knatchbull Young, 6th Baronet, (born 16 July 1941, in Oxford, England) is a British politician. He is a Conservative Party Member of Parliament who has represented the constituency of North West Hampshire since 1997, having previously represented the constituency of Ealing Acton from 1974-97. He served in the Cabinet from 1995-97 as Secretary of State for Transport. He currently serves in the Shadow Cabinet as the Shadow Leader of the House of Commons.
Young was born in 1941, the first son of Sir George Peregrine "Gerry" Young, 5th Baronet, and Elizabeth Knatchbull-Hugessen. His father was a diplomat who met Elizabeth in while serving in Peking (where her father, Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugesse, was the British Ambassador). They married in 1939. On the death of his father in 1960, George inherited the Baronetcy which had been created in 1813 when Sir Samuel Young's services as an Admiral in the Royal Navy were recognised.
Young was educated at Eton, and then Christ...
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