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Charles Edward Baring Young (March 19, 1850 – September 22, 1928) was an English educationalist and Conservative MP. He was the son of Charles Baring Young and his wife Elizabeth Winthrop, who from 1862 lived at Oak Hill (sometimes spelled Oakhill), a large property once noted for its gardens and exotic fruits. The younger Charles Young was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was later called to the bar at Inner Temple. On the death of his father in 1882, he inherited an estate at Monkenfrith, East Barnet, including Oak Hill. Young had strong Christian principles and was inspired to help underprivileged and orphan children from London. In September 1883, he purchased the Daylesford and Kingham Hill estates in Oxfordshire in order to establish Kingham Hill School for boys. In November 1885, Young was elected MP for Christchurch, Hampshire. He held the seat until 1892, when he resigned to concentrate his efforts on his school. Young also purchased a farm at Woodstock, Ontario, where he provided an opportunity for many of his Kingham Hill boys to find a life in Canada. Upon his death in 1928, his Monkenfrith estate was donated for the foundation of Oak Hill College, a theological seminary.
