Sir William Younger, 1st Baronet, of Auchen Castle

William Younger

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.

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 indicated by late 1902 that he would retire at the next election,[5] and thus 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,[6] beating a Liberal Unionist candidate.[7] He stood down from the House of Commons in December 1910 election.[7]

He was made a baronet in July 1911, of Auchen Castle.[1][8]

References

  1. ^ a b "Baronets: Y". Leigh Rayment's baronetage pages. Archived from the original on 1 May 2008. Retrieved 25 July 2010.
  2. ^ a b c d e Debrett's illustrated House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1881. London: Dean & son. 1867. p. 164. Retrieved 24 July 2010 – via Internet Archive.
  3. ^ Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [First published 1974]. British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 553. ISBN 0-900178-27-2.
  4. ^ a b Craig 1989, p. 343.
  5. ^ "Election intelligence". The Times. No. 36957. London. 22 December 1902. p. 6.
  6. ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "P" (part 1)
  7. ^ a b Craig 1989, p. 554.
  8. ^ "No. 28509". The London Gazette. 30 June 1911. pp. 4832–4833.
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Stamford
1895–1906 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Peebles and Selkirk
January 1910 – December 1910 		Succeeded by
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
New title Baronet
of Auchen Castle
1911–1937 		Succeeded by