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Mackworth-Young was the son of a civil servant in British India.
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Mackworth-Young was the son of a civil servant in British India.
He was educated at Eton College and King"s College, Cambridge, where he was President of the Union.
Upon the outbreak of the Second World War, Mackworth-Young joined the Royal Air Force. He saw active service in the Middle East and in the Normandy Campaign, leaving the Royal Air Force as a Squadron Leader in 1948. He subsequently joined the Foreign Office.
In 1955, Mackworth-Young was appointed to be a librarian in the Royal Household at Windsor Castle.
In 1958 he succeeded Sir Owen Morshead as Royal Librarian. From his retirement in 1985 to his death he was given the honorary title of Emeritus Librarian by Elizabeth World War II
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He was a member of the Roxburghe Club from 1965.