George Young, Baron Young of Cookham

The Right Honourable
The Lord Young of Cookham
CH PC
The Right Honourable The Lord Young of Cookham CH PC
	Official portrait, 2020
Lord-in-waiting; Government Whip
	In office; 25 July 2016 – 29 August 2019
Prime Minister	Theresa May; Boris Johnson
Preceded by	The Earl of Courtown
Succeeded by	The Baroness Sater
Chief Whip of the House of Commons; Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury
	In office; 19 October 2012 – 14 July 2014
Prime Minister	David Cameron
Preceded by	Andrew Mitchell
Succeeded by	Michael Gove
Leader of the House of Commons; Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal
	In office; 12 May 2010 – 4 September 2012
Prime Minister	David Cameron
Preceded by	Harriet Harman
Succeeded by	Andrew Lansley
Chairman of the Standards and Privileges Committee
	In office; 18 July 2001 – 8 September 2009
Preceded by	Robert Sheldon
Succeeded by	David Curry
Prime Minister	In office; 5 July 1995 – 2 May 1997
Ministerial offices 1979-97
Secretary of State for Transport
	In office; 5 July 1995 – 2 May 1997
Prime Minister	John Major
Preceded by	Brian Mawhinney
Succeeded by	John Prescott
Financial Secretary to the Treasury
	In office; 11 July 1994 – 5 July 1995
Prime Minister	John Major
Preceded by	Stephen Dorrell
Succeeded by	Michael Jack
Minister of State for Housing
	In office; 28 November 1990 – 11 July 1994
Prime Minister	John Major
Preceded by	Michael Spicer
Succeeded by	The Viscount Ullswater
Comptroller of the Household
	In office; 14 July 1990 – 28 November 1990
Prime Minister	Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by	Alastair Goodlad
Succeeded by	David Lightbown
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment
	In office; 15 September 1981 – 10 September 1986
Prime Minister	Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by	Geoffrey Finsberg
Succeeded by	Christopher Chope
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Security
	In office; 7 May 1979 – 15 September 1981
Prime Minister	Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by	Eric Deakins
Succeeded by	Geoffrey Finsberg
Leader
Shadow Cabinet Offices; 1997-2000, 2009-2010
Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
	In office; 8 September 2009 – 11 May 2010
Leader	David Cameron
Preceded by	Alan Duncan
Succeeded by	Rosie Winterton
	In office; 1 June 1998 – 26 September 2000
Leader	William Hague
Preceded by	Gillian Shephard
Succeeded by	Angela Browning
Shadow Secretary of State for Defence
	In office; 11 June 1997 – 1 June 1998
Leader	William Hague
Preceded by	David Clark
Succeeded by	John Maples
Preceded by
Parliamentary Offices
Member of the House of Lords; Lord Temporal
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 12 October 2015; Life Peerage
Member of Parliament; for North West Hampshire
	In office; 1 May 1997 – 30 March 2015
Preceded by	Sir David Mitchell
Succeeded by	Kit Malthouse
Member of Parliament; for Ealing Acton; Acton (1974–1983)
	In office; 28 February 1974 – 8 April 1997
Preceded by	Nigel Spearing
Succeeded by	Constituency abolished
Personal details
Born	16 July 1941; Oxford, England
Political party	Conservative
Spouse	Aurelia Nemon-Stuart (m. 1964)
Children	4
Alma mater	Christ Church, Oxford; University of Surrey

George Samuel Knatchbull Young, Baron Young of Cookham, CH, PC (born 16 July 1941), known as Sir George Young, 6th Baronet from 1960 to 2015, is a British Conservative Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1974 to 2015, having represented Ealing Acton from 1974 to 1997 and North West Hampshire from 1997. He has served in Cabinet on three occasions: as Secretary of State for Transport from 1995 to 1997; as the Leader of the House of Commons and Lord Privy Seal from 2010 to 2012; and as Chief Whip of the House of Commons from 2012 to 2014.

He stood down from the Commons at the 2015 election and was created a life peer, as Baron Young of Cookham, of Cookham in the Royal County of Berkshire, on 29 September 2015. He sits on the Conservative benches in the House of Lords, where he served as a junior whip from July 2016 to August 2019. Young resigned from this position on 29 August in protest at Prime Minister Boris Johnson's decision to prorogue parliament. He served as a minister under five conservative Prime ministers (Margaret Thatcher, John Major, David Cameron, Theresa May and Boris Johnson).

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