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[[File:William Mackworth Young.jpg|thumb|Former Governor of Punjab]]<br />
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'''Sir William Mackworth Young''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCSI}} (15 August 1840 – 10 May 1924)<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Young, Sir William Mackworth, (15 Aug. 1840–10 May 1924), JP|url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-205019|access-date=2021-06-12|website=WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO|language=en|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u205019}}</ref> was a member of the [[Indian Civil Service]], who became [[Lieutenant-Governor]] of the [[Punjab region|Punjab]] 1897–1902.<br />
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== Early life ==<br />
Young was the son of [[Sir George Young, 2nd Baronet|Captain Sir George Young, 2nd Baronet]]. He attended [[Eton College|Eton]] and [[King's College, Cambridge]], receiving a [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree in 1863 and a [[Master of Arts (Oxbridge and Dublin)|master of arts]] in 1866. Young joined the I.C.S. in [[Bengal]] in 1863, subsequently holding the title of Financial Commissioner of the Punjab from 1889 to 1895, Resident at Mysore (1895 to 1897) and [[List of Governors of Punjab (British India)|Lieutenant Governor of the Punjab]] 1897–1902. He stepped down in early March 1902, and left Bombay for the United Kingdom on 8 March 1902.<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Court Circular|date=10 March 1902 |page=9 |issue=36711}}</ref> He also briefly served as a [[vice-chancellor]] of [[University of the Punjab]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://pu.edu.pk/page/show/former-vcs.html|title=University of the Punjab - Former Vice Chancellors|website=pu.edu.pk}}</ref><br />
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Young also served as a member of the [[Imperial Legislative Council (India)|Imperial Legislative Council]] in 1893.<ref name="IndianBio">{{cite IBD1915|wstitle= Young, Sir William Mackworth |volume= 25.2 |pages= 470 |year=1915|short=}}</ref><ref name=":0" /><br />
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== Family ==<br />
Young married, firstly, in 1869, Isabel Maria Elliott, daughter of the Rev. Charles Boileau Elliott. She died in 1870, two weeks after giving birth to their daughter, Isabel Mary Young.<br />
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He married, secondly, in 1881, Frances Mary Egerton, daughter of [[Robert Eyles Egerton|Sir Robert Eyles Egerton]], Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab. They had four sons, all of whom entered government service and achieved high office:<br />
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* [[Gerard Mackworth Young|Gerard Mackworth-Young]], [[Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire|CIE]] (1884–1965), member of the [[Indian Civil Service]] and director of the [[British School at Athens]];<ref>Dilys Powell, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/34769 "Young, Gerard Mackworth- (1884–1965)"], rev. Katherine Prior, ''[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]'', [[Oxford University Press]], 2004; online edn, May 2012.</ref><br />
* [[Hubert Winthrop Young|Sir Hubert Winthrop Young]], [[Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George|KCMG]], [[Distinguished Service Order|DSO]] (1885–1960), Governor of Nyasaland, Northern Rhodesia, and Trinidad and Tobago;<br />
* [[Mark Aitchison Young|Sir Mark Aitchison Young]], [[Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George|GCMG]] (1886–1974), Governor of Barbados, Tanganyika, and Hong Kong;<br />
* [[Norman Egerton Young]], CB, CMG, MC (1892–1964), Secretary and Comptroller-General of the National Debt Office.<br />
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