Major John Darling Young, KStJ

 

 

Major John Darling Young, KStJ

 1910-1988

 Mess Dress, c. 1932

 

 John D. Young was born in Australia and educated at Eton and Oxford. He was gazetted to The Life Guards on the 3rd of September, 1932. Young was advanced to lieutenant in 1934. He was made a temporary captain in January of 1938 and detached to the Yorkshire Dragoons as an adjutant. Young’s captaincy was made permanent on the 2nd of March that year. Returned to The Life Guards, he was promoted to the rank of temporary major in December of 1942. Young retired from the service on the 27th of April, 1946, and was granted the honorary rank of major. During the Second World War, he served in the Middle East and Italy. Young’s wife inherited the Thornton Hall estate upon the death of her brother in 1944, where they resided in Young’s retirement. He was appointed High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire in 1960 and Deputy Lieutenant there in 1968. On the 3rd of May, 1969, Young was made Lord-Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire and subsequently created a Knight of St. John on the 22nd of August. He served as a magistrate on the Stony Stratford Bench from 1969 to 1974.