Tooth And Nail

Sir Mark Aitchison Young, GCMG was a British administrator who became the Governor of Hong Kong during the years immediately before and after the Japanese occupation of the territory. Young was educated at Eton College and King's College, Cambridge. He entered the Ceylon Civil Service in 1909 and... served in the British Army with the Rifle Brigade during World War I from 1915. Young served as Principal Assistant Colonial Secretary of Ceylon from 1923 to 1928, then as colonial secretary of Sierra Leone from 1928 to 1930. From 1930 to 1933, he served as Chief secretary to the Government of the British Mandate of Palestine. From 5 August 1933 to March 1938, he served as Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Barbados. From November 1937 to February 1938, he served in the Government of Trinidad and Tobago. Then from 1938 to 1941, he served as Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Tanganyika Territory British Mandate. He served as Governor of Hong Kong between 1941 and 1947. During his term, which coincided with the Pacific theatre of World War II, Hong Kong came under the threat of Japanese invasion.
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Mark Young is a film director, producer, writer and editor.