collection of essays and articles, many of them reprinted from the journals and papers to which Young was by now a frequent contributor. Later years During the Second World War, Young served in the Home Guard, as what one of his friends called "a most improbable platoon commander". After the war, Young published two more collections of articles and essays: Today and Yesterday (1948) and Last Essays (1950), in which, according to the ODNB, "he found elbow-room for good talk, addressed purposely to the middlebrow, about literature, persons, and manners". Writing for the general reader was an effort for Young who, Hart-Davis said, "always assumes that one is his intellectual equal and makes no concessions … This, though flattering, often carried matters well over my head until I knew him well enough to ask for explanations of all the allusions I couldn’t understand". In 1947 Young undertook the editorship of the Victorian volume in the series "English Historical Documents", but declining health limited his contribution, and when the volume was published in 1956 most of it was the work of his co-editor, W. D. Handcock. When Mona Wilson grew too old and frail to remain at her house and retired to a nursing home, Young, who had been re-elected a Fellow in 1948, moved into rooms at All Souls. Young's last book was a biography of Stanley Baldwin, which Baldwin had wished him to write. He found the task a struggle. His earlier books, Hart-Davis said, "came largely out of his head, where their subject-matter had been brewing up for many years", whereas this biography required a great deal of original research, which Young found tedious and frustrating, as Baldwin left few personal papers and did not keep a diary. When the book was printed Winston Churchill and Lord Beaverbrook threatened to sue if certain passages were not removed or altered. Hart-Davis had the "hideously expensive" job of removing and replacing seven leaves from 7,580 copies. Neither the publisher nor Young's biographers in the ODNB found the book up to the author's usual standard. Young died in Thames Bank Nursing Home, Goring, Oxfordshire, on 18 November 1959, at the age of 77. Honours and appointments Young was appointed CB in the 1917 Birthday Honours for his work as a civil servant. From 1937 he was a trustee of the National Portrait Gallery and from 1947 to 1957, of the British