Hubert Winthrop Young

Major Sir Hubert Winthrop Young, KCMG, DSO (6 July 1885 – 20 April 1950) was an English soldier in British Army and British Indian Army, Liberal Party politician, diplomat and colonial governor.

Early life and army Born on 6 July 1885, Young was the second son of colonial administrator William Mackworth Young and his second wife, Frances Mary, daughter of Sir Robert Eyles Egerton, KCSI, JP, Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab from 1877 to 1882, Sir Robert Egerton was nephew of the 8th and 9th Grey Egerton baronets. Gerard's paternal grandfather was Sir George Young, 2nd Baronet. He was educated at Eton before being commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1904.

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) Northern Rhodesia - Governor (1935–1938) Trinidad and Tobago - Governor (8 July 1938 - 1942)

Young had been knighted in 1934 and in 1942 he returned to London where he organised European relief work until he retired in 1945.