Saturday, 16 December 2017
1765 William Younger
Constituency : Stamford 1895-1906 ( Conservative ) , Peebles and Selkirk 1910
William took over from the Master of Elibank who had switched seats to Midlothian.
William was the son of a Scottish landowner . He was educated at Oxford. He joined the army in 1884 but left four years later. He stood for the Liberal Unionists at Orkney and Shetland in 1892 then was elected for the Conservatives at Stamford in 1895. He stood down in 1906. By 1910 he was a Liberal.
Most of William's parliamentary contributions as a Liberal were about horses.
William stood down in December. He was created a baronet the following year.
He died in 1937 aged 75.
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