George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie
George Kenneth Hotson Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie KT KCVO PC ( born September 22, 1931 in Winchester, † 26 January 2003) was a Scottish politician and former Minister of the Conservative Party.
Education and work
The son of a Scottish family with deep roots conservative first attended Winchester College and then studied at New College, University of Oxford. During the Korean War he served in the British Army. He then worked as a manager and director of the brewery family.
Member of the House of
Younger renounced in 1963 as a candidate in the by-election in the constituency of West Perth, and allowed the then Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home election to the House of Commons.
In 1964 he managed to move into the House of Commons, where he represented the constituency until 1992 Ayr ( this constituency represented from 1906 to 1922 already his great-grandfather George Younger ( 1851-1929 ) in the House ). He represented alongside the two other Conservative MEPs Alick Buchanan -Smith and Hector Monro, called the trio of " One Nation " - Conservatives for Scotland 's interests to some extent against the principles advocated by the Tory total fraction opinion.
In 1965 he was " Whip " of the Scottish Conservatives and remained in that post until 1967. In opposition from 1974 to 1975 he was chairman of the Conservative Party in Scotland.
Member of the Government
In the reign of Edward Heath Younger was 1970-1974 so-called " junior ministers " in the Scotland Office. There he worked again with Hector Monro together, who was Undersecretary of State during this time.
Under Margaret Thatcher was George Younger 1979-1986 Scotland minister ( Secretary of State for Scotland). In this office he built on the Scottish Development Agency and the location attraktivierte Scotland for high technology after the collapse of traditional industries such as mining, steel and textile industries of the previous years.
Following him the "Iron Lady" appointed defense minister, after Michael Heseltine resigned. This office he held until 1989.
Later life
After his retirement from active politics in 1989, George Younger worked at Bank of Scotland Group, of which he became president in 1992.
For his contributions to the politics Queen Elizabeth II made him 1992 Life peer as Baron Younger of Prestwick, so that he now had a seat in the House of Lords. After the death of his father in 1997, he became his successor, and he inherited the title of Viscount Younger of Leckie.