Hubert Winthrop Young

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Major Sir Hubert Winthrop Young DSO CMG (1885-1950) was a British soldier, politician, diplomat and colonial governor.

Born in 1885, Young was educated at Eton before being commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1904.[1]

He was awarded the DSO for gallantry in Mezerib, Syria in September 1918.[1]

  • Malawi (Nyasaland) - Governor (22 November 1932 to 9 April 1934)

He wrote the sympathetic book The Independent Arab, a part-memoir, part-travelogue detailing his diplomatic and military time in the Middle East.

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  1. ^ a b http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/news/0300you.html Major Hubert Young at Archives Hub


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