Sir William Younger, 1st Baronet (28 June 1862 – 28 July 1937) was a Scottish politician who served as a

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(MP) for a total of 11 years between 1895 and 1910.

Family

Younger was the son of William Younger, of

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, Moffat, and his wife Margaret (''née'' Brown), from Sydney, Australia. He was educated at Worcester College, Oxford. He joined the

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in 1884, taking up a commission with the 16th Lancers, but left in 1888 and married Helen Caroline Gunter, the daughter of Sir Robert Gunter, 1st Baronet, the Conservative MP for

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in Yorkshire. His residences were listed in 1901 as

, Moffat and 45 Prince's Gardens, London SW.

Political career

He first stood for Parliament at the 1892 general election, when he was an unsuccessful

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candidate in Scotland for Orkney and Shetland. Standing as a Conservative Party candidate, he was elected at the 1895 general election as the MP for the Stamford (or Kesteven) division of Lincolnshire in England. He was re-elected in

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, but indicated by late 1902 that he would retire at the next election, and thus did not contest Stamford again at the 1906 election. His next electoral contest was as a

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candidate at the January 1910 general election, when he returned to Scotland to be elected as the MP for Peebles and Selkirk, beating a

candidate. He stood down from the

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in December 1910 election. He was made a

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in July 1911, of Auchen Castle.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Younger, William 16th The Queen's Lancers officers 1862 births 1937 deaths Alumni of Worcester College, Oxford Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Liberal Unionist Party parliamentary candidates Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies People from Dumfries and Galloway Scottish Liberal Party MPs UK MPs 1895–1900 UK MPs 1900–1906 UK MPs 1910