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1879-1960. Attended Eton, before studying at University College, London, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took the Natural Sciences tripos, and was President of the Union Society and editor of the Cambridge Review. He was called to the Bar in 1904, and practised in the King's Bench Division and on the Oxford Circuit. As a result of illness he gave up his legal career to pursue politics and journalism, becoming assistant editor of the Economist, then financial editor of the Morning Post (1910-1914). 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. Hilton Young was the 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 and 1930). In 1926 he left the Liberals to join the Conservative Party, and was Secretary for Overseas Trade in the National Government and Minister of Health, 1931-35. He was created a peer in 1935.

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First Baron Kennet of the Dene.

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