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Sir John David Bingham Younger KCVO (born 20 May 1939) was

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from 1994 to 2014. He retired on reaching the age of seventy-five. Educated at

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and the

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, Younger was commissioned into the

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in 1959, and served in Borneo and Singapore before joining the Directorate of Military Operations at the Ministry of Defence in 1967. He retired from the Army in 1969 and was with

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Breweries from 1969 to 1979 before becoming one of the founding partners of the

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in 1979. In 1969 he became a member of the

Royal Company of Archers The Royal Company of Archers, The King's Bodyguard for Scotland is a ceremonial unit that serves as the Sovereign's bodyguard in Scotland—a role it has performed since 1822 during the reign of King George IV when the company provided a perso ...

, which is the Queen's Bodyguard for Scotland, and was its Secretary from 1993 to 2007. He was Vice-President of the

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in 1994, and became Vice-Lord Lieutenant of Tweeddale in 1992, before becoming Lord Lieutenant in 1994.

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1939 births

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