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	George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		George Kenneth Hotson Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie (September 22, 1931–January 26, 2003), known to many as "Gentleman George", was a British politician whose long career as Conservative MP for Ayr (1964–1992) included periods as Secretary of State for Scotland from 1979 to 1986, and Secretary of State for Defence from 1986 to 1989.
		Younger was the eldest of three sons of Edward Younger, 3rd Viscount Younger of Leckie (1906–1997) by his wife Evelyn Margaret, née McClure.
		Younger quit the cabinet in 1989, and joined the Royal Bank of Scotland, being made a director in that year, and in 1992, he left life as an MP behind altogether, and became the Bank's chairman.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Younger,_4th_Viscount_Younger_of_Leckie (486 words)

	Viscount Younger of Leckie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Viscount Younger of Leckie is a peerage title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
		Edward George Younger, 3rd Viscount Younger of Leckie (1906-1997)
		James Edward George Younger, 5th Viscount Younger of Leckie (b.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Viscount_Younger_of_Leckie (103 words)

	Station Information - George Younger
		Lord Younger came from a Scottish family which had been making money from brewing since the 18th century, and which entered the aristocracy in the early years of the 20th century.
		This George Younger's great-great-grandson, also named George Younger (1851 - 1929), entered politics, and was created the 1st Viscount Younger of Leckie in 1923.
		Lord Younger quit the cabinet in 1989, and joined the Royal Bank of Scotland, being made a director in that year, and in 1992, he left life as an MP behind altogether, and became the Bank's chairman.
	www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/g/ge/george_younger.html (393 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Viscount Younger of Leckie
		Younger was a likeable, thoroughly decent man, popular on all sides of his party; but his political legacy to the Conservative Party in Scotland and more widely was a controversial one.
		Younger simply avoided the issue until it was forced on him following the revaluation of domestic rates in 1985, which led to many ratepayers facing huge increases in their bills.
		George Kenneth Hotson Younger was born on September 22 1931, son and heir of the 3rd Viscount Younger of Leckie.
	www.opinion.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/01/27/db2702.xml (1233 words)

	List of Viscounts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This is a list of present Viscounts in the Peerages of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland, and the United Kingdom.
		Viscounts of the United Kingdom and of Ireland created after 1801
		The Viscount Stansgate (1942, presently disclaimed by the Rt.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Viscounts (145 words)

	Politics \| Lord Younger
		Younger's department was also accused of having connived at the illegal diversion of shells nominally headed for Saudi Arabia to forbidden Iran.
		Younger was a pragmatic paternalist: a pro-European, he also supported proportional representation for a proposed Scottish assembly.
		Younger was made a Royal Bank of Scotland director in 1989; the next year he was made deputy chairman and then chairman.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4592088-103684,00.html (1064 words)

	Encyclopedia: George Younger, 1st Viscount Younger of Leckie
		George Younger, 1st Viscount Younger of Leckie (October 13, 1851 - April 29, 1929) was a British politician.
		He was created a baronet on July 12, 1911, and a viscount - as the 1st Viscount Younger of Leckie - on February 20, 1923.
		One of his great-grandsons was the politician George Younger (1931 - 2003), 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, Secretary of State for Scotland from 1979 to 1986, and Secretary of State for Defence from 1986 to 1989.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/George-Younger,-1st-Viscount-Younger-of-Leckie (233 words)

	George Younger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This George Younger's great-great-grandson, also named George Younger (1851–1929), entered politics, and was createdthe 1st Viscount Younger of Leckie in 1923.
		Younger was the eldest of three sons of Edward George Younger (1906–1997), 3rd Viscount Younger of Leckie, byhis wife Evelyn Margaret, née McClure.
		Lord Younger quit the cabinet in 1989, and joined the Royal Bank of Scotland, being made a director in that year, andin 1992, he left life as an MP behind altogether, and became the Bank's chairman.
	www.therfcc.org /george-younger-208821.html (420 words)

	viscount
		The title of a viscount may be either a placename, or a surname, or, as is more often the case, a combinations thereof.
		In any event, the style of a viscount is "The Viscount X," or "The Viscount X of Y." Examples include: The Viscount Falmouth (placename); The Viscount Hardinge (surname); The Viscount Gage of Castle Island (surname of placename); and The Viscount Combermere of Bhurtpore (placename of placename).
		Normally, The Viscount X is known as Lord X, while his wife is Lady X. (X is only the main title: the Viscount of Arbuthnott would be Lord Arbuthnott; the Viscount Gage of Castle Island would be Lord Gage.) The children of a viscount are known as "The Honourable [Forename] [Surname]".
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	Edinburgh Evening News - Top Stories - Ex-Scots Secretary is dying of cancer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Lord Younger served as Scottish Secretary from 1979 to 1986 and Defence Secretary from 1986 to 1989 in the Tory Government of Margaret Thatcher.
		Lord Younger - "George" to his many friends in all parties in Parliament - served in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders from 1950 to 1965 and played a leading role in the battle to prevent the regiment losing its identity in army mergers.
		Aged 70, he was the son of the third Viscount Younger of Leckie.
	edinburghnews.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=1237372002 (651 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Scotland \| Lord Younger dies after cancer battle
		As George Younger, the MP for Ayr was Secretary of State for Scotland between 1979 and 1986.
		He subsequently inherited the hereditary Viscountcy of Younger of Leckie on the death of his father in 1997.
		Lord Younger was married with three sons and a daughter.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/scotland/2696373.stm (427 words)

	Conservative Party - News Story
		Lord Younger, who served as Scottish Secretary and later as Defence Secretary in the 1980s, and later became a highly successful chairman of the Royal Bank of Scotland, died at the weekend after a long battle with cancer.
		"George Younger was in the front line of British politics, bravely arguing for strong defence and the nuclear deterrent, and as a result played an important part in the demise of the Soviet Union," he said.
		Educated at Winchester and Oxford, George Younger served as a platoon commander with the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders during the Korean War, and later became MP for Ayr between 1964 and 1992.
	www.conservatives.com /tile.do?def=news.story.page&obj_id=51314 (378 words)

	Scotland on Sunday - Top Stories - Catholics 'excluded' from roll of honour
		He said the Queen had an ideal opportunity to refute accusations of bias when naming the replacement for the late Viscount Younger of Leckie, who was one of the 16 members of the Order of the Thistle.
		The death of Viscount Younger of Leckie, earlier this year, has left a vacancy, with his replacement due to be announced on St Andrew’s Day, November 30.
		Six members are hereditary peers: the Duke of Buccleuch, the Earl of Wemyss, the Earl of Elgin, the Earl of Airlie, the Viscount of Arbuthnott, and the Earl of Crawford.
	scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=288222003 (1185 words)

	How To Look Younger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		George Younger, 1st Viscount Younger of Leckie 1: '''George Younger, 1st Viscount Younger of Leckie''' (October 13, 1851 - April 3: [1911, and a viscount - as the 1st Viscount Younger of Leckie - on February 20, 1923.
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	George Younger, 1st Viscount Younger of Leckie -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		George Younger, 1st Viscount Younger of Leckie (October 13, 1851 - April 29, 1929) was a (The people of Great Britain) British (A person active in party politics) politician.
		He became a Unionist (A member of the military police who polices soldiers and guards prisoners) MP in 1906, being Chairman of the Unionist Party Organisation from 1916 to 1923, and Treasurer of the Unionist Party in 1923.
		He was created a (A member of the British order of honor; ranks below a baron but above a knight) baronet on July 12, 1911, and a (A British peer who ranks below an earl and above a baron) viscount - as the 1st Viscount Younger of Leckie - on February 20, 1923.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/G/Ge/George_Younger,_1st_Viscount_Younger_of_Leckie.htm (182 words)

	Ayr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The displaced candidate was the Honourable, George Younger, the son of Viscount Younger of Leckie, who as Tory Chief Whip, had brought down Lloyd-George's Tory-Liberal coalition in 1922.
		George Younger was rewarded with the safe Tory seat of Ayr at the 1964 General election when Sir T.C.R. Moore stepped down.
		Sir George retired in 1992 when he was raised to the peerage as Lord Younger of Prestwick and was appointed Chairman of the Royal Bank of Scotland.
	www.alba.org.uk /nextwe/s01.html (1989 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Scotland \| Lord Younger: A career in politics
		Lord Younger of Leckie has died at the age of 71.
		Born George Kenneth Hotson Younger, he was a member of the brewing family and the heir of the third Viscount Younger of Leckie.
		George Younger was appointed defence secretary in January 1986 after the resignation of Michael Heseltine over the Westland affair.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/scotland/2696457.stm (617 words)

	BBC - Scotland History - On This Day
		On this day in 1931 the politician George Younger (Viscount Younger of Leckie) was born.
		Under Margaret Thatcher Younger served as Secretary of State for Scotland from 1979 to1986.
		Later, Younger became Chairman of The Royal Bank of Scotland.
	bbc.co.uk /scotland/history/onthisday/onthisday.shtml?month=09&day=22 (185 words)

	Overview of George Kenneth Hotson Younger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A member of the noted family of brewers, George Younger was educated in Edinburgh and Oxford.
		On leaving politics in 1992, he was created a life peer as Lord Younger of Prestwick, in recognition of a campaign he fought in relation to the airport.
		Younger inherited the Viscountcy of Younger of Leckie on the death of his father in 1997.
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk /scotgaz/people/famousfirst568.html (242 words)

	George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie contains research on
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	The Scotsman - Scotland - Sheriff retires after 25 years on the bench (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Sheriff Robert Younger, 64, graduated from Oxford and Edinburgh universities, and became an advocate in 1968.
		He was first appointed to the bench at Glasgow in 1979 and moved to the Sheriffdom of Tayside, Central and Fife in 1982.
		His older brother, the late George Younger, was Mrs Thatcher’s defence secretary and a former Secretary of State for Scotland.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /scotland.cfm?id=1218132004 (354 words)

	The Independent (London, England) : Obituary: Viscount Younger of Leckie; Defence Secretary under Margaret Thatcher who ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		I realised that my platoon of Jocks of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders was in a perilous position, and that I as a 19-year-old was responsible for their lives, as well as my own.
		George Younger was to become Secretary of State for Scotland, Defence Secretary, Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, an Honorary Fellow of New College, Oxford, Warden of Winchester College, chairman of the Royal Bank of Scotland and, by personal choice of the Queen, a Knight of the Thistle.
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	Viscount Younger of Leckie -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Viscount Younger of Leckie -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Viscount Younger of Leckie is a (The peers of a kingdom considered as a group) peerage title in the (Click link for more info and facts about Peerage of the United Kingdom) Peerage of the United Kingdom.
		(Click link for more info and facts about James Edward George Younger, 5th Viscount Younger of Leckie) James Edward George Younger, 5th Viscount Younger of Leckie (b.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/V/Vi/Viscount_Younger_of_Leckie.htm (147 words)

	Ayr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ayr has been something of a family seat for the Youngers with George Younger's grandfather, another George Younger, who later became Viscount Younger of Leckie winning the seat in 1918.
		By 1992, George Younger had seen the writing on the wall for Tory hopes in Ayr and decided to retire.
		This did not worry George Foulkes in Carrick, but was disastrous for Phil Gallie as Labour would have won Ayr with a majority of almost 2,000 on the new boundaries.
	www.alba.org.uk /scot03constit/s01.html (2520 words)

	House of Lords Elections
		Viscount Younger of Leckie (died 26th January 2003) also held a previous life peerage.
		At a byelection on 25th and 26th March 2003, Viscount Ullswater (C) was elected to fill the vacant seat.
		At a byelection on 11th and 12th May 2004, Viscount Trenchard was elected to fill the vacant seat.
	www.election.demon.co.uk /lords.html (790 words)

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	Catholic World News : Scotland's Bishops Claim Queen Ignores Catholics
		The Scottish Bishops' Conference is planning to write to the Queen to ask why a Catholic has not yet received the honor during her reign.
		The move has been prompted by the recent death of Viscount Younger of Leckie, the former Scottish Secretary and Defense Minister, who was one of the 16 members of the order.
		The bishops believe that accusations of anti-Catholic bias could be answered by replacing Viscount Younger with a prominent Catholic.
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	Avenue :: the magazine for graduates and friends of the University of Glasgow - NUMBER 29 December 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Royal Bank of Scotland has announced plans to support the University's wider access programme with news of a major gift totalling £340,000.
		Viscount Younger of Leckie, Chairman of the Royal Bank, recently launched two new schemes to open up access to higher education.
		Viscount Younger commented: "From all the information we receive, it is very clear that many disadvantaged but potentially first class students may feel deterred from aiming for a degree by fears over student finance.
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