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Edward Hilton Young, 1st Baron Kennet, GBE, DSO, DSC & Bar, PC (20 March 1879 – 11 July 1960) was a British politician and writer.
Hilton Young was M.P. for Norwich 1915-23, and 1924-29; Financial Secretary to the Treasury 1921-22; British Representative at the Hague Conference on International Finance 1922; and went on financial missions for the British Government to India (1920), Poland (1924), and Iraq (1925 & 1930).
Hilton Young entered Parliament as a Liberal MP in 1915 and became Financial Secretary to the Treasury in 1921. After the election of 1922, he became Chief Whip of the Lloyd George Liberals and was sworn of the Privy Council.
Hilton Young served in the navy during the First World War, and in 1918 lost his right arm in the attack on the Mole at Zeebrugge. He was M.P. for Norwich, 1915-23 and 1924-29, and Financial Secretary to the Treasury, 1921-22.
family. Young, Edith Agnes Kathleen Hilton (1878-1947) sculptor is the spouse of Young, Edward Hilton (1879-1960) first Baron Kennet of the Dene, politician. 1922-1947.
A collection comprising the papers of the Rt.Hon. Edward Hilton Young (1879-1960), 1st Lord Kennet of the Dene, the politician and writer, and those of his wife Kathleen (1878-1947), a noted sculptor and the widow of Captain Robert Falcon Scott, the explorer.
found: Oxford dictionary of national biography WWW site, Apr. 27, 2018 (Young, (Edward) Hilton, first Baron Kennet; born 20 March 1879, London, died 11 July 1960, Wiltshire; politician and writer; published a book of essays, A Bird in the Bush (1936), and a book of verse, A Muse at Sea (1919))
