Background
Younger was the son of William Younger, of Auchen Castle, Moffat, and his wife Margaret (née Brown), from Sydney, Australia.
Younger was the son of William Younger, of Auchen Castle, Moffat, and his wife Margaret (née Brown), from Sydney, Australia.
He was educated at Worcester College, Oxford.
His residences were listed in 1901 as Auchen Castle, Moffat and 45 Prince"s Gardens, London Southwest.
He first stood for Parliament at the 1892 general election, when he was an unsuccessful Liberal Unionist candidate in Scotland for Orkney and Shetland. Standing as a Conservative Party candidate, he was elected at the 1895 general election as the Member of Parliament for the Stamford (or Kesteven) division of Lincolnshire in England. He was re-elected in 1900, but did not contest Stamford again at the 1906 election.
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 Member of Parliament for Peebles and Selkirk, beating a Liberal Unionist candidate.
He stood down from the House of Commons in December 1910 election. He was made a baronet in July 1911, of Auchen Castle.
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