Young, George Malcolm (1882–1959)

English historian whose works include Victorian England, 1936, and Today and Yesterday, 1948. He was particularly noted for his biographies, such as Life of Gibbon, 1932 (on the 18th-century historian Edward Gibbon) and Stanley Baldwin, 1952.

Young was born in Greenhithe, Kent, and educated at St Paul's School and Balliol College, Oxford. He was elected a fellow of All Souls' College in 1905, and was employed in the civil service 1908–20 before taking up full-time lecturing.