The story of two remarkable people and the place they made, is told in this book by one who was himself intimately involved in their work.
Michael Young recounts the lives of Dorothy and Leonard Elmhirst - She the daughter of an American millionaire; he the son of a Yorkshire parson and secretary to Rabindranath Tagore in Bengal before he married Dorothy. He also tell the story of the foundation of the Dartington Hall Trust and its aims and achievements up to 1978.
Michael Dunlop Young, Baron Young of Dartington (9 August 1915 – 14 January 2002) was a British sociologist, social activist and politician who coined the term "meritocracy". During an active life he was instrumental in shaping Labour Party thinking. When secretary of the policy committee of the Labour Party, he was responsible for drafting "Let Us Face the Future", Labour's ma...