Wayland Hilton Young, 2nd Baron Kennet (born August 2, 1923) is a British writer and SDP and Labour Party politician.

Life

Young was born to the politician Edward Hilton Young, 1st Baron Kennet, and the sculptor Kathleen Scott, née Bruce, widow of Captain Robert Falcon Scott. His half-brother was Sir Peter Scott. He was educated at Stowe School and Trinity College, Cambridge. During World War II he served in the Royal Navy (1942-45). He then went on to the Foreign Office (1946-47, 1949-1951). He married Elizabeth Ann Adams in 1948 and had one son and five daughters.

Wayland Young inherited the title of Baron Kennet in 1960 upon the death of his father. He served in numerous national and international capacities over the years, including as Chairman of the Council for the Protection of Rural England 1971-72, Opposition Spokesman on Foreign Affairs in the House of Lords 1971-74; Chief SDP Whip, House of Lords 1981-83. He started his career in the Labour Party, then joined the SDP and returned to the Labour Party in 1990.

Works

Young has published on a wide range of mostly political topics, especially on the politics of Italy, on disarmament and arms control, on the churches of London, and on various political scandals, notably the Profumo Affair and the Montesi scandal. His 1964 work Eros Denied was a groundbreaking manifesto of the sexual revolution.

Bibliography

• The Italian Left, 1949
• The Deadweight, The Cresset Press, 1952
• Now or Never, The Cresset Press, 1953
• Old London Churches (with Elizabeth Young), Faber & Faber, London, 1956
• The Montesi Scandal: The Story of the Famous Murder That Rocked Modern Italy, Faber & Faber, London, 1957
• Still Alive Tomorrow, 1958 (reprinted Panther, London, 1960)
• The Socialist Imagination (with Elizabeth Young), Fabian Society, 1960 (pamphlet)
• Disarmament: Finnegan's Choice (with Elizabeth Young), Fabian Society, 1961 (pamphlet)
• Gogol's Wife & Other Stories (translator of work by Tommaso Landolfi; with Raymond Rosenthal, John Longrigg), New Directions, Norfolk, Connecticut, 1963.
• Strategy for Survival, First steps in nuclear disarmament, Penguin Special, London, 1959
• The Profumo Affair: Aspects of Conservatism, Penguin, London, 1963
• Bombs and Votes, Fabian Society, 1964 (pamphlet)
• Eros Denied: Sex in Western Society, Grove Press, New York, 1964 (other editions are subtitled "Studies in Exclusion")
• Preservation, 1972
• The Futures of Europe, 1976
• The Rebirth of Britain, 1982
• London's Churches: A Visitor's Companion (with Elizabeth Young), Grafton Books, London 1986, ISBN 0881622125
• Northern Lazio: An Unknown Italy (with Elizabeth Young), 1990, ISBN 0719546435

External link

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