Sir George Young
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The Right Honourable The Lord Young of Cookham CH PC |
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Chief Whip of the House of Commons Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury |
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In office 19 October 2012 – 14 July 2014 |
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| Prime Minister | David Cameron |
| Preceded by | Andrew Mitchell |
| Succeeded by | Michael Gove |
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Leader of the House of Commons Lord Privy Seal |
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In office 12 May 2010 – 4 September 2012 |
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| Prime Minister | David Cameron |
| Deputy | David Heath |
| Preceded by | Harriet Harman |
| Succeeded by | Andrew Lansley |
| Shadow Leader of the House of Commons | |
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In office 8 September 2009 – 11 May 2010 |
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| Leader | David Cameron |
| Preceded by | Alan Duncan |
| Succeeded by | Rosie Winterton |
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In office 1 June 1998 – 26 September 2000 |
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| Leader | William Hague |
| Preceded by | Gillian Shephard |
| Succeeded by | Angela Browning |
| Chairman of the Standards and Privileges Committee | |
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In office 18 July 2001 – 8 September 2009 |
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| Preceded by | Robert Sheldon |
| Succeeded by | David Curry |
| Shadow Secretary of State for Defence | |
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In office 11 June 1997 – 1 June 1998 |
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| Leader | William Hague |
| Preceded by | David Clark |
| Succeeded by | John Maples |
| Secretary of State for Transport | |
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In office 5 July 1995 – 2 May 1997 |
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| Prime Minister | John Major |
| Preceded by | Brian Mawhinney |
| Succeeded by | John Prescott (Environment, Transport and the Regions) |
| Financial Secretary to the Treasury | |
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In office 11 July 1994 – 5 July 1995 |
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| Prime Minister | John Major |
| Preceded by | Stephen Dorrell |
| Succeeded by | Michael Jack |
| Minister of State for Housing | |
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In office 28 November 1990 – 11 July 1994 |
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| Prime Minister | John Major |
| Preceded by | Michael Spicer |
| Succeeded by | The Viscount Ullswater |
| Comptroller of the Household | |
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In office 14 July 1990 – 28 November 1990 |
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| Prime Minister | Margaret Thatcher |
| Preceded by | Alastair Goodlad |
| Succeeded by | David Lightbown |
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Member of Parliament for North West Hampshire |
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In office 1 May 1997 – 30 March 2015 |
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| Preceded by | David Mitchell |
| Succeeded by | Kit Malthouse |
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Member of Parliament for Ealing Acton Acton (1974–1983) |
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In office 28 February 1974 – 1 May 1997 |
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| Preceded by | Nigel Spearing |
| Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
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Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal |
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Assumed office 29 September 2015 Life Peerage |
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16 July 1941 Oxford, England, UK |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Aurelia Nemon-Stuart (1964–present) |
| Children | Sophia George Hugo Camilla |
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Christ Church, Oxford University of Surrey |
George Samuel Knatchbull Young, Baron Young of Cookham, CH, PC (born 16 July 1941), known as Sir George Young, 6th Baronet from 1960 to 2015, is a British Conservative Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1974 to 2015, having represented North West Hampshire since 1997 and Ealing Acton prior to that. He served in Cabinet from 1995 to 1997 as Secretary of State for Transport, and later as the Leader of the House of Commons and Lord Privy Seal from 2010 to 2012. On 19 October 2012 Young was re-appointed to the Cabinet as Chief Whip of the House of Commons following the resignation of Andrew Mitchell.
On 29 November 2013 Young announced he would be retiring from the Commons in May 2015 and would not be standing at the next election. In August 2015, it was announced by Downing Street that Young was to be raised to the peerage, being created Baron Young of Cookham, of Cookham in the Royal County of Berkshire, on 29 September 2015. He sits on the Conservative benches in the House of Lords.
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