Thursday, 22 March 2018
1860 Edward Hilton Young
Constituency : Norwich 1915-23, 1924-6, 1926-9, Sevenoaks 1929-35 ( Conservative )
Edward took over at Norwich when Frederick Low became a judge.
Edward was a baronet's son from Berkshire. He was educated at Eton and Cambridge. He became a barrister but got little work and switched to financial journalism. In 1908, he became assistant editor of The Economist but switched to city editor of The Morning Post in 1910. He stood at Preston in December 1910. He was friendly with a number of members of the Bloomsbury Group including E M. Forster. He enlisted in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve in 1914. He served in a number of theatres and had to have his right arm amputated after taking part in the Zeebrugge Raid. Nevertheless he supported Clive Bell's claim to conscientious objector status.
Edward does not seem to have received the coupon but only an Independent Labour candidate opposed him and the Coalition Labour candidate. He was quickly appointed Parliamentary Secretary to H.A.L. Fisher at Education. In 1921 he became Financial Secretary to the Treasury with responsibility for wielding the "Geddes Axe". He wanted Lloyd George to abandon the coalition.
In 1922 Edward , standing for the Lloyd George Liberals and Roberts (standing as an Independent ) easily fended off a couple of Labour candidates. He became Lloyd George's Chief Whip .In 1923 he and Roberts ( now a Unionist ) came third and fourth respectively. In 1924 , without a second Liberal candidate in the field and having negotiated a pact with the Tories, he topped the poll.
In 1926 Edward defected to the Conservatives over the Liberal land policy.
Edward helped stabilise the currency systems of Poland and Iraq in the 1920s and was on the board of railway, electric and maritime companies. He was a delegate to the Assembly of the League of Nations in 1926-7. He was Minister for Export Credits ( 1929-31 ) and Minister for Health ( 1931-5 ) where he contributed to substantial housing and planning legislation.
Edward retired from politics in 1935 and was created Baron Kennet. He was chair of the Capital Issues Committee from 1937 to 1959.
Edward published a number of books including economics works, a war memoir and poetry collection.
Edward married the widow of Captain Scott.
He died in 1960 aged 81.
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