Janet Young, Baroness Young
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The Right Honourable The Baroness Young PC DL |
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| Lord Privy Seal | |
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In office 7 April 1982 – 11 June 1983 |
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| Prime Minister | Margaret Thatcher |
| Preceded by | Humphrey Atkins |
| Succeeded by | John Biffen |
| Leader of the House of Lords | |
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In office 14 September 1981 – 11 June 1983 |
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| Prime Minister | Margaret Thatcher |
| Preceded by | Christopher Soames |
| Succeeded by | The Viscount Whitelaw |
| Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster | |
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In office 14 September 1981 – 7 April 1982 |
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| Prime Minister | Margaret Thatcher |
| Preceded by | Francis Pym |
| Succeeded by | Cecil Parkinson |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 23 October 1926 |
| Died | 6 September 2002 (aged 75) |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Alma mater |
Yale University St Anne's College, Oxford |
Janet Mary Young, Baroness Young, PC DL (née Baker; 23 October 1926 – 6 September 2002) was a British Conservative politician. She served as the first ever female Leader of the House of Lords from 1981 to 1983, first as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and from 1982 as Lord Privy Seal. She was the only woman ever appointed to the Cabinet by Margaret Thatcher.
Born in 1926, she went to the mainly boys Dragon School in Oxford where she played rugby and cricket, and then to Headington School. During World War II she studied at Yale, and then took an MA in philosophy, politics and economics at St Anne's College, Oxford. She married Geoffrey Tyndale Young, and had three daughters.
She became a councillor for Oxford City Council in 1957 and was leader by 1967. Not long after, she was raised to the peerage on the advice of Edward Heath. Her life peerage was announced on 5 April 1971 and was raised to the peerage on 24 May 1971 as Baroness Young, of Farnworth in the County Palatine of Lancaster. As the Baroness Young she joined the Cabinet on 15 September 1981, when she was appointed to be the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. On 13 April 1982, she was appointed to be the Leader of the House of Lords and the Lord Privy Seal, posts which she kept until 11 June 1983.
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