Spencer Young
Isaac Campbell | |
|---|---|
 official portrait of the 56-year-old Campbell painted in 2307 | |
| Prime Minister of Empherias | |
| In office 8 July 2278 – 12 August 2290 | |
| Preceded by | Maria Alexandria |
| Succeeded by | Paige West Coleman |
| In office 8 September 2292 – 11 October 2301 | |
| Preceded by | Paige West Coleman |
| Succeeded by | Edgard Merigold |
| In office 8 September 2304 – 15 July 2311 | |
| Preceded by | Edgard Merigold |
| Succeeded by | James B. Sterling |
| In office 5 January 2316 – 12 March 2321 | |
| Preceded by | James B. Sterling |
| Succeeded by | Spencer Young |
| In office 19 August 2324 – 27 September 2335 | |
| Preceded by | Spencer Young |
| Succeeded by | Charles Bates-Bennett |
| Member of Parliament for the Whigs | |
| In office 4 August 2275 – 27 September 2338 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Isaac Peter Campbell 7 September 2251 |
| Died | 12 September 2344 (aged 93) |
| Nationality | Empheri |
| Political party | Whig |
| Height | 185 cm (6 ft 1 in) |
Sir Spencer Epping Young (19 November 2297 – 1 December 2348) was an Empheri politician and statesman that served as Prime Minister of Empherias between 2321 and 2324.
Young dropped out of school in 2315, just aged 17, to pursue an interest in politics. By his teachers, he was noted as very clumsy and unable to put words together well. He decided to join the Whig party's youth division to help his father, Bill Wright-Young. However, he met the then Prime Minister Isaac Campbell in 2316 and got along with him well.
Young was tutored and trained in Prime Ministerial duty by Campbell hoping for him to take the position once he resigned and retired.
Young became Prime Minister on 12 March 2321 following the resignation of Isaac Campbell. Taking on the role aged 23, he was still being mentored by Campbell who took on the position of Chairman of the Whig party. He appointed former Prime Minister Edgard Merigold as his Chancellor of the Exchequer. His time in office was marred in scandal and controversy as his political opponents exaggerated the clumsiness and forgetfulness of Young. He eventually got infected with influenza and resigned the role on 19 August 2324, giving the role back to Campbell.
Appointed as the Deputy Prime Minister from 2324 onwards, he stayed within the public eye and improved as a politician as he got older. He also turned more liberal and joined a faction of the party known as the Mellow Whigs which promoted liberalism within the party. Spencer Young moved positions on 4 January 2334 to become Chancellor of the Exchequer, succeeding Merigold. He maintained this role for a year until the election defeat in 2335.
Throughout the dissolution of the Whigs, Young was a founding member of the Liberal party (which had stem from the Mellow Whigs).
Young was appointed on 27 September 2338 to Rusbridge's cabinet on her electoral victory in the election to Chief Secretary of the Cabinet Office, However he became the Deputy Prime Minister once again on 8 January 2339.
With the death of Campbell and retirement of Merigold in 2344, Young was seen as the last great Evergreen Whig giant involved in politics.
Whilst campaigning for the 2348 general election, the third in three years, Young was shot and killed on 1 December 2348 while giving a speech - he was 51. His assassin was also a Liberal supporter who believed it was him who was tainting the liberal movement and letting the Conservatives be powerful.
Young never married but was in two long term relationships. First was with Ahitereiran-Empheri socialite Mari Latey which began following a state visit to Ahitereira in 2322, and ended likely in 2325. His second produced two children out of wedlock with Emmelie Campbell, daughter of Isaac Campbell's niece Emmy-Mae. They met while on holiday with Isaac Campbell himself in 2337. They remained together, but not married, until his death. His two children were Isaac and Emmy Young-Campbell.