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Janet Young, Baroness Young

Note that there are two other British life peers with similar titles: Barbara Scott Young, Baroness Young of Old Scone; and Lola Young, Baroness Young of Hornsey.

Janet Mary Baker Young, Baroness Young of Farnworth (23 October 19266 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 female member of Margaret Thatcher's Cabinet.

She became a councillor for Oxford City Council in 1957 and was leader by 1967. Not long after she was made a peer on the advice of Edward Heath, as Baroness Young, of Farnworth in the County Palatine of Lancaster. As the Lady Young she was appointed Leader of the House of Lords, and sat on the boards of large corporations like NatWest and Marks and Spencer.

In later life she was mainly known for her opposition to more liberal legislation for gay people. She worked to try to stop legislation going through the House of Lords to equalise the age of consent for homosexual men with that of heterosexuals, and also for the repeal of Section 28. She was ultimately defeated by the Labour government on both counts.

She died at the age of 75 following a long battle with cancer.


Preceded by
Lord Soames
Leader of the House of Lords
1981–1983
Succeeded by
Viscount Whitelaw
Preceded by
Francis Pym
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
1981 – 1982
Succeeded by
Cecil Parkinson
Preceded by
Humphrey Atkins
Lord Privy Seal
1982–1983
Succeeded by
John Biffen



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