He was educated at Edinburgh Academy. In 1897, he became chairman of George Younger and Son, the family brewing business founded by his great-grandfather, George Younger (baptised February 17, 1722), of Alloa, Clackmannanshire. He became a Unionist 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 baronet on July 12, 1911, and a viscount - as the 1st Viscount Younger of Leckie - on February 20, 1923.
GeorgeYounger, 1stViscountYounger of Leckie Bt (October 13, 1851 - April 29, 1929) was a British politician.
One of his great-grandsons was the politician GeorgeYounger (1931 - 2003), 4th ViscountYounger of Leckie, Secretary of State for Scotland from 1979 to 1986, and Secretary of State for Defence from 1986 to 1989.
Lord Younger of Leckie 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.
Younger was the eldest of three sons of Edward Younger, 3rd ViscountYounger 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.
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