Sir George Young, 6th Baronet
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Sir George Samuel Knatchbull Young, 6th Baronet (born July 16, 1941) is an English politician, and Tory Member of Parliament for North West Hampshire. He is a patron of the Tory Reform Group.
Young was elected as a Councillor on the London Borough of Lambeth from 1968 to 1971, alongside his wife and John Major. He represented Clapham Town ward, and served on the Housing Committee. He and other councillors worked as refuse collectors at week-ends, during a strike. He lost his council seat in 1971. In 1970, Young had been elected to the Greater London Council as one of four Members for the London Borough of Ealing, and served on the GLC from 1970 and 1973, where he was vice-chairman of the Strategic Planning Authority. He was later to be one of the local Government Ministers who abolished the GLC. He did not contest his seat on the GLC in 1973, having been selected as a candidate for Parliament.
He entered Parliament in the 1974 election, as the MP for Ealing Acton and retained the position until 1997, when the constituency ceased to exist due to boundary changes. He served as a minister under Margaret Thatcher and John Major and was Secretary of State for Transport from 1995 to 1997, where he oversaw the privatisation of British Rail. He is a One Nation Tory, and was in William Hague's shadow cabinet until 2000.
Young married Aurelia, daughter of sculptor Oscar Nemon.
External links
- [Sir George Young Bt MP] official site
- [ePolitix.com - Rt Hon Sir George Young Bt]
- [Guardian Unlimited Politics - Ask Aristotle: George Young MP]
- [TheyWorkForYou.com - George Young MP]
- [The Public Whip - George Young MP] voting record
- [BBC News - George Young] profile 10 February, 2005
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