18 Aug 2023                   
                Wife: Eleanor Slingsby    
       Also known as: Len Winthrop Young 1
                Born:  8 Jul 1895          in Yorkshire  2 (see note 1)
          Occupation:                      Climber  1
                Died: 1994                 in Norfolk  3 (see note 2)
              Father:
              Mother:
          Media link: http://www.alpinejournal.org.uk/Contents/Contents_1995_files/AJ%201995%20325-345%20In%20Memoriam.pdf
          Media desc: Obituary
             Husband: Geoffrey Winthrop Young     
             Married: 1918                 in London  2 (see note 3)
                Born: 25 Oct 1876          in London  4
           Education:                      Trinity College, Cambridge  5 (see note 4)
          Occupation:                      University Reader In Education  4
          Occupation:                      Climber  6
             Resided: 1939                 in Surrey  4
             Resided: ABT 1942             at St Rhadegund's, 5 Chaucer Road, Trumpington  7
                Died: 1958                 in London  2 (see note 5)
              Father:
              Mother:
          Media link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Winthrop_Young
          Media desc: Wikipedia

Sources:
(1) Obituary. 
(2) FreeBMD website. 
(3) Index on ancestry.co.uk. 
(4) 1939 Register. 
(5) Alumni Cantabrigienses. 
(6) Wikipedia. 
(7) Rus in Urbe. 


Event Notes
Note (1) Sep 1895 Skipton 9a 48
Note (2) Feb 1994 North Walsham   born 8 Jul 1895
Note (3) Jun 1918 St George Hanover Square 1a 939
Note (4) Name: 	Geoffrey Winthrop Young
College: 	TRINITY
Entered: 	Michs. 1895
BORN: 	25 Oct 1876
More Information: 	Adm. pens. at TRINITY, June 29, 1895. [2nd] s. of Sir
George (1855), 3rd Bart., of 16, Hyde Park Place, London (and Alice Eacy Young).
B. Oct. 25, 1876, in London. School, Marlborough College. Matric. Michs. 1895;
B.A. 1898; Chancellor's medal (English Verse) 1898 and 1899; B.A. 1898; M.A.
1902. At Jena University and Geneva University. Assistant Master at Eton,
1900-5. H.M. Inspector of Schools, 1905-13. Served in the Great War, 1914-19
(Commander, Friends' Ambulance Unit, France and Belgium, 1914-15; Italy,
1915-19; wounded; mentioned in despatches; Legion of Honour; Order of Leopold;
Order of the Crown of Italy). Consultant for Europe to Rockefeller Foundation,
1925-35. Reader in Comparative Education at London University, 1932-41. Clark
Lecturer at Trinity, Cambridge, 1940. Married, Apr. 25, 1918, Eleanor, dau. of
W. Cecil Slingsby, of Heversham and had issue. Author of Poems; From the
Trenches; Mountain Craft; On High Hills. Brother of Edward H. (1897).
(Marlborough Coll. Reg.; Who's Who.)
Note (5) Sep 1958 Kensington 5c 848   age 81

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