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Sir John David Bingham Younger KCVO (20 May 1939 – 14 June 2024) was a British Army officer and business man who served as the

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from 1994 to 2014. He retired on reaching the age of seventy-five. Born on 20 May 1939, Younger was educated at

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and the

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. He was commissioned into the

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in 1959 and served in Borneo and Singapore before joining the Directorate of Military Operations at the Ministry of Defence in 1967. He retired from the Army in 1969 and was an executive with

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Breweries from 1969 to 1979 before becoming one of the founding partners of the Broughton Brewery in 1979. In 1969, he became a member of the

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, the monarch's Bodyguard for Scotland, and was its Secretary from 1993 to 2007. He was vice-president of the

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in 1994, and became Vice-Lord Lieutenant of Tweeddale in 1992, before becoming Lord Lieutenant in 1994. Younger died after a battle with dementia and cancer on 14 June 2024, at the age of 85.

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Tweeddale Tweeddale (Scottish Gaelic: ''Srath Thuaidh/Tuaidhdail'') is a committee area and lieutenancy area in the Scottish Borders council area in south-eastern Scotland. It had also been a province in the Middle Ages. From 1975 to 1996 it was a local gov ...

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