Janet Young

Baroness Young of Farnworth, or Janet Young (October 23, 1926-September 6 2002), was a British Tory 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 Privy Seal.

She became a councillor for Oxford city council in 1957 and was leader by 1967. Not long after she was made a peer on the advice of Edward Heath. As Baroness Young she was appointed Leader of the House of Lords, and sat on the boards of big corporations like NatWest and Marks and Spencer.

In later life she was mainly known for her opposition to the Blair government's efforts to ease restrictions on homosexuals,and consequently was much-disliked by supporters of these policies. She worked to stop legislation going through the House of Lords to equalise the age of consent for homosexual and heterosexual sexual activity at 16.

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