|
|
Article: British reformer Michael Young dead at 86.
- Article from:
- United Press International
- Article date:
- January 15, 2002
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2002 United Press International. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
LONDON, Jan 15, 2002
Michael Young, a musician's son who gained fame as a social reformer and one of the architects of Britain's welfare state after World War II, has died at the age of 86.
Young was described as a "one-man think tank" by The Times of London newspaper, whose "range of interests was to the advantage of millions of British people whose lives he improved."
News reports said he died Monday, but the cause of death was not immediately disclosed. Funeral arrangements for the man who rose to become Lord Young of Dartington were pending.
Young was born in Manchester, England, in 1915, to a musician father and a writer mother ...