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'''Elizabeth Young, Baroness Kennet''' (née Adams; 14 April 1923 – 30 November 2014) was a British writer, researcher, poet, artist, campaigner, analyst and questioning commentator.
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'''Elizabeth Ann Young, Baroness Kennet''' (née '''Adams'''; 14 April 1923 – 30 November 2014) was a British writer, researcher, poet, artist, campaigner, analyst and questioning commentator.


==Life==
==Life==
Elizabeth Ann Young, Lady Kennet, was born in London on 14 April 1923, the only daughter of Captain Bryan Fullerton Adams DSO (22 July 1887 – 22 September 1971),<ref name=Dalyell>{{cite news |title= Lord Kennet: Writer and Labour politician who defected to help form the SDP then later returned |author= Tam Dalyell |url= https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/lord-kennet-writer-and-labour-politician-who-defected-to-help-form-the-sdp-then-later-returned-1683147.html |newspaper= The Independent |date= 12 May 2009 |access-date=25 December 2010}}</ref><ref>{{Lives of WWI | id= 6890978 | name= Bryan Fullerton Adams }}</ref> and his first wife Audrey Marshall (12 June 1898 – 11 July 1929). When she was a small child, the family moved about with her father to his naval appointments. When he retired from the Navy, he was appointed Naval expert to the Disarmament Section of the League of Nations in Geneva. Her first school was a French school (where she became bilingual in French), her second school was the [[International School of Geneva]] ("Ecolint");<ref>[https://cdn.ymaws.com/alumni.ecolint.ch/resource/resmgr/magazines_newsletters/echo_9_nov2011.pdf Echo, the Ecolint Magazine, page 16]</ref> after that she moved to an English school further up the lane, St George's School, Clarens. She returned to England to attend Downe House, whence she won an Exhibition to [[Somerville College, Oxford]], to read Philosophy, Politics and Economics, and was awarded a two-year War Degree. After three years in the Women's Royal Naval Service, Young worked with her future brother-in-law Peter Scott in the earliest days of the Severn Wildlife Trust at Slimbridge.
Lady Kennet was born in London on 14 April 1923, the only daughter of Captain Bryan Fullerton Adams DSO (22 July 1887 – 22 September 1971),<ref name=Dalyell>{{cite news |title= Lord Kennet: Writer and Labour politician who defected to help form the SDP then later returned |author= Tam Dalyell |url= https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/lord-kennet-writer-and-labour-politician-who-defected-to-help-form-the-sdp-then-later-returned-1683147.html |newspaper= The Independent |date= 12 May 2009 |access-date=25 December 2010}}</ref><ref>{{Lives of WWI | id= 6890978 | name= Bryan Fullerton Adams }}</ref> and his first wife Audrey Marshall (12 June 1898 – 11 July 1929). When she was a small child, the family moved about with her father to his naval appointments. When he retired from the Navy, he was appointed Naval expert to the Disarmament Section of the League of Nations in Geneva. Her first school was a French school (where she became bilingual in French), her second school was the [[International School of Geneva]] ("Ecolint");<ref>[https://cdn.ymaws.com/alumni.ecolint.ch/resource/resmgr/magazines_newsletters/echo_9_nov2011.pdf Echo, the Ecolint Magazine, page 16]{{Dead link|date=June 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> after that she moved to an English school further up the lane, St George's School, Clarens. She returned to England to attend Downe House, whence she won an Exhibition to [[Somerville College, Oxford]], to read Philosophy, Politics and Economics, and was awarded a two-year War Degree. After three years in the Women's Royal Naval Service, Young worked with her future brother-in-law Peter Scott in the earliest days of the Severn Wildlife Trust at Slimbridge.


In 1948, she married the [[Wayland Young, 2nd Baron Kennet|Hon Wayland Hilton Young, 2nd Baron Kennet]] (2 August 1923 – 7 May 2009), who inherited the title of [[Baron Kennet]] in 1960 on the death of his father, the politician [[Edward Hilton Young, 1st Baron Kennet]].<ref name=Dalyell/> His mother was the sculptor [[Kathleen Scott]], widow of Captain [[Robert Falcon Scott]] of the Antarctic.,<ref name=Dalyell/> and daughter of Canon Lloyd Stuart Bruce and his wife Jane (née Skene). Wayland and Elizabeth had one son, William Aldus (Thoby) Young, and five daughters;<ref>{{cite news |title= Lord Kennet |url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/politics-obituaries/5309774/Lord-Kennet.html |newspaper= The Telegraph |date= 11 May 2009 |access-date=25 December 2010}}</ref> Easter Russell, educationalist; the sculptor [[Emily Young]]; Mopsa English, educationalist; the writer [[Louisa Young]], aka children's author [[Zizou Corder]], and artist, writer, environmentalist and videographer Zoe Young.
In 1948, she married the [[Wayland Young, 2nd Baron Kennet|Hon Wayland Hilton Young, 2nd Baron Kennet]] (2 August 1923 – 7 May 2009), who inherited the title of [[Baron Kennet]] in 1960 on the death of his father, the politician [[Edward Hilton Young, 1st Baron Kennet]].<ref name=Dalyell/> His mother was the sculptor [[Kathleen Scott]], widow of Captain [[Robert Falcon Scott]] of the Antarctic.,<ref name=Dalyell/> and daughter of Canon Lloyd Stuart Bruce and his wife Jane (née Skene). She had six children;<ref>{{Cite news |last=Warner |first=Arabella |date=September 27, 1997 |title='The day I kneed a burglar in the groin' |work=The Times |via=Gale}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title= Lord Kennet |url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/politics-obituaries/5309774/Lord-Kennet.html |newspaper= The Telegraph |date= 11 May 2009 |access-date=25 December 2010}}</ref> Easter Russell, educationalist; the sculptor [[Emily Young]]; Mopsa English, educationalist; the writer [[Louisa Young]], aka children's author [[Zizou Corder]], and artist, writer, environmentalist and videographer Zoe Young.

Lady Kennet had twelve grandchildren and one great grandchild, and lived in London. She spent her last few years writing a new book entitled Preemptive Mourning, which will be posthumously published. She continued to draw the view from her window, compose haikus, and blog until close to the end. A collection of her poems and drawings will be produced by her descendants.


==Works==
==Works==


On marrying, Young began writing, starting with an article for ''[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]]'' on the [[Island of Giglio]] in 1950. She continued to write on a wide range of mostly political issues, especially on [[disarmament]], [[arms control]] and [[sailor|maritime]] affairs, but also on other subjects such as churches in Old London Churches (John Betjeman's Book of the Year), and Italy in Northern Lazio (winner of the 1990 European Federation Tourist Press Book Prize) both co-written with Wayland Young.<ref>{{cite news |title= Lord Kennet: writer and politician |url= http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article6260989.ece |newspaper= The Times |date= 10 May 2009 |access-date=25 December 2010}}</ref>
On marrying, Young began writing, starting with an article for ''[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]]'' on the [[Island of Giglio]] in 1950. She continued to write on a wide range of mostly political issues, especially on [[disarmament]], [[arms control]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=Young |first=Elizabeth |title=A farewell to arms control? |date=1972 |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-14-021593-9 |series=Pelican books |location=Harmondsworth}}</ref> and [[sailor|maritime]] affairs,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Ken Booth |url=http://archive.org/details/lawforcediplomac00kenb |title=Law, force, and diplomacy at sea |date=1985 |publisher=Allen & Unwin |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-04-341027-1 |pages=75,80,90,92,96,116}}</ref> but also on other subjects such as churches in Old London Churches (John Betjeman's Book of the Year), and Italy in Northern Lazio (winner of the 1990 European Federation Tourist Press Book Prize) both co-written with Wayland Young.<ref>{{cite news |title= Lord Kennet: writer and politician |url= http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article6260989.ece |newspaper= The Times |date= 10 May 2009 |access-date=25 December 2010}}</ref>

Following the publication of Old London Churches, a threat to [[Christ Church Spitalfields]] led her to set up and run the Hawksmoor Committee.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Young |first=Elizabeth |date=1996 |title=The Campaigns for Christ Church, Spitalfields and Nicholas Hawksmoor, 1960–1995 |url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13556207.1996.10785159 |journal=Journal of Architectural Conservation |language=en |volume=2 |issue=2 |pages=21–38 |doi=10.1080/13556207.1996.10785159 |issn=1355-6207}}</ref> At roughly the same time, she was asked by [[Arthur Koestler]] and Paul Ignotus to set up the [[Tibor Dery]] Committee, to promote the release of imprisoned [[Hungarian people|Hungarian]] writers. Both committees were successful in their aims.{{Citation needed|date=June 2024}}

Young was also an active member of many boards and organisations including the Advisory Board for Redundant Churches; the Advisory Committee for the Protection of the Sea; the [[Royal United Services Institution]]'; the [[Royal Institute for International Affairs]]; [[Chatham House]]; the [[International Institute for Strategic Studies]];{{Citation needed|date=June 2024}} as well as contributing to groups protecting [[Stonehenge]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Young |first1=Elizabeth |last2=Kennet |first2=Wayland |date=2000 |title=Stonehenge: the Saga Continues |url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13556207.2000.10785281 |journal=Journal of Architectural Conservation |language=en |volume=6 |issue=3 |pages=70–85 |doi=10.1080/13556207.2000.10785281 |issn=1355-6207}}</ref>

== Selected publications==
*{{Cite book |last=Young |first=Elizabeth |date=1956|title=Old London churches |url=https://search.worldcat.org/title/1070955800 |access-date=2024-06-03 |language=en|oclc=1070955800}}<ref>Review of ''Old London Churches''
*{{Cite journal |last=Colvin |first=H. M. |date=1957 |title=Review of Old London Churches |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/557805 |journal=The English Historical Review |volume=72 |issue=282 |pages=153–154 |doi=10.1093/ehr/LXXII.CLXXXII.153 |jstor=557805 |issn=0013-8266}}
*{{Cite journal |last=Knapp-Fisher |first=A. B. |date=1956 |title=Review of OLD LONDON CHURCHES |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41365946 |journal=Journal of the Royal Society of Arts |volume=104 |issue=4990 |pages=984–985 |jstor=41365946 |issn=0035-9114}}</ref>
*{{Cite book |last=Young |first=Elizabeth |date=1958 |title=Time is as time does; [poems] |url=https://search.worldcat.org/title/5699329 |access-date=2024-06-03 |language=en |oclc=5699329}}
*{{Cite book |last=Young |first=Elizabeth |date=1963 |title=Nations and nuclear weapons |url=https://search.worldcat.org/title/2437584 |access-date=2024-06-03 |language=en |oclc=2437584}}<ref>Review of ''Nations and nuclear weapons''
*{{Cite journal |last=Nicholl |first=A. D. |date=1964 |title=Review of Limited War in the Nuclear Age.; Nations and Nuclear Weapons. |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2609929 |journal=International Affairs |volume=40 |issue=2 |pages=309–310 |doi=10.2307/2609929 |jstor=2609929 |issn=0020-5850}}</ref>
*{{cite book |last=Young |first=Elizabeth |title=A Farewell to Arms Control? |date=1972 |publisher=Penguin Group |isbn=978-0-14-021593-9 |publication-place=Harmondsworth}}<ref>Review of ''A Farewell to Arms Control''
*{{Cite journal |last1=Jacobson |first1=Harold K. |last2=Pfaltzgraff |first2=Robert L. |date=1973 |title=Review of Implications for Arms Control in the 1970s, Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr.; A Farewell to Arms Control? |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1041949 |journal=The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science |volume=410 |pages=170–172 |jstor=1041949 |issn=0002-7162}}</ref>
*{{cite book | last1=Young | first1=Elizabeth | last2=Young| first2=Wayland | title=London's Churches | publisher=Grafton | publication-place=London | date=1986 | isbn=978-0-246-12961-1}}<ref>Review of ''London's Churches''
*{{Cite news |last=P. |first=J. |date=1986-08-07 |title=Real taste of London |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/chelsea-news-real-taste-of-london/148582858/ |access-date=2024-06-02 |work=Chelsea News |pages=28}}</ref>

== Honors and awards ==
Young was named a fellow of the [[Federation of American Scientists]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hampton |first=Jane |date=2015-01-05 |title=Obituary for Elizabeth Ann Young |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-independent-obituary-for-elizabeth-a/148615575/ |access-date=2024-06-03 |work=The Independent |pages=49}}</ref>{{When|date=June 2024}}


==References==
==References==

Latest revision as of 06:15, 11 June 2024

Elizabeth Ann Young (née Adams), Lady Kennet, was a commentator, poet and artist.

Elizabeth Ann Young, Baroness Kennet (née Adams; 14 April 1923 – 30 November 2014) was a British writer, researcher, poet, artist, campaigner, analyst and questioning commentator.

Life

Lady Kennet was born in London on 14 April 1923, the only daughter of Captain Bryan Fullerton Adams DSO (22 July 1887 – 22 September 1971),[1][2] and his first wife Audrey Marshall (12 June 1898 – 11 July 1929). When she was a small child, the family moved about with her father to his naval appointments. When he retired from the Navy, he was appointed Naval expert to the Disarmament Section of the League of Nations in Geneva. Her first school was a French school (where she became bilingual in French), her second school was the International School of Geneva ("Ecolint");[3] after that she moved to an English school further up the lane, St George's School, Clarens. She returned to England to attend Downe House, whence she won an Exhibition to Somerville College, Oxford, to read Philosophy, Politics and Economics, and was awarded a two-year War Degree. After three years in the Women's Royal Naval Service, Young worked with her future brother-in-law Peter Scott in the earliest days of the Severn Wildlife Trust at Slimbridge.

In 1948, she married the

Zizou Corder
, and artist, writer, environmentalist and videographer Zoe Young.

Works

On marrying, Young began writing, starting with an article for

Island of Giglio in 1950. She continued to write on a wide range of mostly political issues, especially on disarmament, arms control[6] and maritime affairs,[7] but also on other subjects such as churches in Old London Churches (John Betjeman's Book of the Year), and Italy in Northern Lazio (winner of the 1990 European Federation Tourist Press Book Prize) both co-written with Wayland Young.[8]

Following the publication of Old London Churches, a threat to

Hungarian writers. Both committees were successful in their aims.[citation needed
]

Young was also an active member of many boards and organisations including the Advisory Board for Redundant Churches; the Advisory Committee for the Protection of the Sea; the

Royal Institute for International Affairs; Chatham House; the International Institute for Strategic Studies;[citation needed] as well as contributing to groups protecting Stonehenge.[10]

Selected publications

Honors and awards

Young was named a fellow of the Federation of American Scientists.[15][when?]

References

  1. ^ a b c Tam Dalyell (12 May 2009). "Lord Kennet: Writer and Labour politician who defected to help form the SDP then later returned". The Independent. Retrieved 25 December 2010.
  2. Lives of the First World War
  3. ^ Echo, the Ecolint Magazine, page 16[permanent dead link]
  4. ^ Warner, Arabella (27 September 1997). "'The day I kneed a burglar in the groin'". The Times – via Gale.
  5. ^ "Lord Kennet". The Telegraph. 11 May 2009. Retrieved 25 December 2010.
  6. ISBN 978-0-14-021593-9
    .
  7. ISBN 978-0-04-341027-1
    .
  8. ^ "Lord Kennet: writer and politician". The Times. 10 May 2009. Retrieved 25 December 2010.
  9. ISSN 1355-6207
    .
  10. ISSN 1355-6207
    .
  11. ^ Review of Old London Churches
  12. ^ Review of Nations and nuclear weapons
  13. ^ Review of A Farewell to Arms Control
  14. ^ Review of London's Churches
  15. ^ Hampton, Jane (5 January 2015). "Obituary for Elizabeth Ann Young". The Independent. p. 49. Retrieved 3 June 2024.
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