In 1919 Young joined the Foreign Office in London, after three years he was transferred to the Colonial Office as an assistant secretary in the Middle East Department.[1][8] He was later appointed Colonial Secretary at Gibraltar.[8] In 1929 he moved to Iraq and in 1932 was appointed the first Minister of Baghdad.[8] He advocated for the creation of an independent Kurdistan.[9]
After a few months he was appointed Governor of Nyasaland, the first of three governorships:
Malawi (Nyasaland) - Governor (22 November 1932 to 9 April 1934)
Young had been knighted in 1934 and in 1942 he returned to London where he organised European relief work until he retired in 1945.[8]
He wrote the sympathetic book The Independent Arab, a part-memoir, part-travelogue detailing his diplomatic and military time in the Middle East.
Politics
Following his retirement he took an interest in politics and stood twice as a candidate in the 1945 general election at Harrow West for the Liberal Party and again at a by-election in Edge Hill, Liverpool in 1947 without success.[8] In February 1947 he was part of a group of Liberal candidates from the 1945 elections who signed up in support of the pamphlet 'Design For Freedom' which sought a merger of Liberals with Conservatives creating a new centre party.
Family life
Young had married Margaret Rose Mary Reynold (d.1981) in London in 1924. Lady Young Road from Port of Spain to Barataria, Trinidad is named after her. They had three sons, Nicholas, Martin and Simon. Young died in Portugal on 20 April 1950.[8]