Sir William Younger, 1st Baronet, of Auchen Castle

Sir William Younger, 1st Baronet (28 June 1862 – 28 July 1937)[1] was a Scottish politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for a total of 11 years between 1895 and 1910.

William Younger

Family

Younger was the son of William Younger, of Auchen Castle, Moffat, and his wife Margaret (née Brown), from Sydney, Australia.[2] He was educated at Worcester College, Oxford.[2]

He joined the British Army in 1884, taking up a commission with the 16th Lancers, but left in 1888[2] and married Helen Caroline Gunter,[2] the daughter of Sir Robert Gunter, 1st Baronet, the Conservative MP for Barkston Ash in Yorkshire.

His residences were listed in 1901 as Auchen Castle, Moffat and 45 Prince's Gardens, London SW.[2]

Political career

He first stood for Parliament at the 1892 general election, when he was an unsuccessful Liberal Unionist candidate in Scotland for Orkney and Shetland.[3]

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[4] in England. He was re-elected in 1900, but did not contest Stamford again at the 1906 election.[4]

His next electoral contest was as a Liberal Party candidate at the January 1910 general election, when he returned to Scotland to be elected as the MP for Peebles and Selkirk,[5] beating a Liberal Unionist candidate.[6] He stood down from the House of Commons in December 1910 election.[6]

He was made a baronet in July 1911, of Auchen Castle.[1][7]

References
  1. "Baronets: Y". Leigh Rayment's baronetage pages. Retrieved 25 July 2010.
  2. Debrett's illustrated House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1881. London: Dean & son. p. 164. Retrieved 24 July 2010.
  3. Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1974]. British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 553. ISBN 0-900178-27-2.
  4. Craig, op. cit, page 343
  5. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "P" (part 1)
  6. Craig, op. cit, page 554
  7. "No. 28509". The London Gazette. 30 June 1911. pp. 4832–4833.
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Henry Cust		 Member of Parliament for Stamford
1895–1906		 Succeeded by
Lord John Joicey-Cecil
Preceded by
Alexander Murray, Master of Elibank		 Member of Parliament for Peebles and Selkirk
January 1910 – December 1910		 Succeeded by
Sir Donald Maclean
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
New title Baronet
of Auchen Castle
1911–1937		 Succeeded by
William Robert Younger

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