Personal Life
In 1897 Younghusband married Helen Augusta Magniac, the daughter of Charles Magniac, MP. They had a son who died in infancy, and a daughter, Eileen Younghusband (1902–1981), who became a prominent social worker.
From 1921 to 1937 the couple lived at Westerham, Kent, but Helen did not accompany her husband on his travels.
Wrote the foreword to Towards Angkor in the footsteps of the Indian invaders, by H. G. Quaritch Wales (1937.)
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