The Lord Young of Dartington | |
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| Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
| In office 20 March 1978 – 14 January 2002 Life Peerage | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 9 August 1915 Manchester, England |
| Died | 14 January 2002 (aged 86) London, England |
| Resting place | Highgate Cemetery, London, England |
| Political party | Labour (until 1981; 1989–2002) SDP (1981–88) 'Continuing' SDP (1988–89) |
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| Children | 6, including Toby Young |
| Alma mater | London School of Economics |
| Awards | Albert Medal (1992) |
Michael Dunlop Young, Baron Young of Dartington (9 August 1915 – 14 January 2002), was a British sociologist, social activist and politician. Young was an urbanist, known as an academic researcher, polemicist and institution-builder.[1]
During his career, Young was influential in shaping the policy and ideology of the Labour Party. As secretary of the policy committee of the Labour Party, he was responsible for drafting Let Us Face the Future, Labour's manifesto for the 1945 general election.[2] Young was a leading advocate for social reform, and in that capacity he founded or helped to found a number of organisations. These include the Consumers' Association, Which? magazine, the National Consumer Council, the Open University, the Institute for Community Studies, the National Extension College, the Open College of the Arts and Language Line, a telephone-interpreting business.