Janet Young, Baroness Young

The Right Honourable
The Baroness Young
PC DL
The Right Honourable The Baroness Young PC DL
Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
	In office; 13 June 1983 – 13 June 1987
Prime Minister	Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by	The Lord Belstead
Succeeded by	The Lord Glenarthur
Leader of the House of Lords
	In office; 14 September 1981 – 11 June 1983
Prime Minister	Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by	The Lord Soames
Succeeded by	The Viscount Whitelaw
Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal
	In office; 7 April 1982 – 11 June 1983
Prime Minister	Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by	Humphrey Atkins
Succeeded by	John Biffen
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
	In office; 14 September 1981 – 7 April 1982
Prime Minister	Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by	Francis Pym
Succeeded by	Cecil Parkinson
Minister of State for Education and Science
	In office; 7 May 1979 – 14 September 1981
Prime Minister	Margaret Thatcher
Preceded by	Gordon Oakes
Succeeded by	Paul Channon
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment
	In office; 5 June 1973 – 4 March 1974
Prime Minister	Edward Heath
Preceded by	The Lord Sandford
Succeeded by	Gerald Kaufman
Baroness-in-Waiting; Government Whip
	In office; 21 April 1972 – 5 June 1973
Prime Minister	Edward Heath
Preceded by	New appointment
Succeeded by	The Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal
Member of the House of Lords
	Lord Temporal
	Life peerage; 24 May 1971 – 6 September 2002
Personal details
Born	23 October 1926; Widnes, England
Died	6 September 2002 (aged 75); Oxford, England
Party	Conservative
Alma mater	Yale University; St Anne's College, Oxford

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Janet Mary Young, Baroness Young, PC, DL (née Baker, 23 October 1926 – 6 September 2002) was a British Conservative Party 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 Keeper of the Privy Seal. She was the only woman ever appointed to the Cabinet by Margaret Thatcher.