Sir William Douglas Young KBE CMG (27 January 1859 – 7 March 1943) was a colonial administrator from British Columbia who was Governor of the Falkland Islands from 1915 to 1920.
[4] In 1889, Young was appointed chief Clerk in the Government Secretary's Office, British Guiana,[4] where his mother was born and grew up with his grandmother.
[7] He was Administrator of Dominica (part of the British Leeward Islands) in 1906[6] and was made CMG in the birthday honours list of November 1907.
[8] He was appointed acting Governor and Commissioner-in-Chief in the British Leeward Islands in 1909, and Administrator and Colonial Secretary of St. Lucia in 1913.
[9] During his time as governor he banned humpback whaling for the 1918–1919 season in the Falkland Islands Dependencies, based on a reduction in numbers in the previous year.