About David Younger
Lived 1939 – 2024 (aged 85). David Younger was a British civil servant.
Captain Sir John David Bingham Younger KCVO (20 May 1939 – 14 June 2024) was a British Army officer and business man who served as the Lord Lieutenant of Tweeddale from 1994 to 2014. He retired on reaching the age of seventy-five.
Born on 20 May 1939, Younger was educated at Eton and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He was commissioned into the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders 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 Scottish and Newcastle Breweries from 1969 to 1979 before becoming one of the founding partners of the Broughton Brewery in 1979.
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British public servant (1939–2024)
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David Younger was born on 20 May 1939.
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David Younger died on 14 June 2024.
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