Major Sir Hubert Winthrop Young, KCMG, DSO (6 July 1885 – 20 April 1950)[1] was an English soldier in British Army and British Indian Army, Liberal Party politician, diplomat and colonial governor.

[8] Young served on the North West Frontier becoming an assistant political officer in Mesopotamia during the First World War.

[9] After a few months he was appointed Governor of Nyasaland, the first of three governorships: 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.

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.