Sir Charles Alban Young, 9th Baronet (18 November 1865 – 2 March 1944) was a British diplomat.
Biography Young was the son of the playwright Sir Charles Lawrence Young and Mary Florence Toulmin. He entered Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service,The London Gazette (3 April 1891) serving in Athens and becoming the British Councillor in Tehran in 1910, serving there until 1913. He was then appointed Minister to Guatemala and other countries in Central America between 1913 and 1919.The London Gazette (4 November 1913) His final posting was as Minister to Serbia from 1919 to 1925.The London Gazette (28 November 1919) Young inherited his brother's baronetcy in 1921. He was invested as a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St GeorgeThe London Gazette (31 May 1918) and as a Member of the Royal Victorian Order.The London Gazette (8 May 1906)
He married Clara Elliot, daughter of Sir Francis Elliot, on 18 July 1908. His only son, William, was killed in Libya during the Second World War and Young was succeeded in the baronetcy by his grandson.
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Sources Young, Sir (Charles) Alban, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, April 2014
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