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{{Short description|British public servant (1939–2024)}}
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[[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|Captain]] '''Sir John David Bingham Younger''' [[Royal Victorian Order|KCVO]]<ref name=Debretts>{{cite web|title=(John) David Bingham Younger|url=http://www.debretts.com/people-of-today/profile/9233/%28John%29-David-Bingham-YOUNGER|publisher=Debretts|accessdate=16 May 2014}}</ref> (20 May 1939 – 14 June 2024) was a British public servant who was the [[Lord Lieutenant of Tweeddale]] from 1994 to 2014.<ref name=Lord_Lt>{{cite web | title=Lieutenants and Lord-Lieutenants of Counties (Scotland) 1794- | last=Sainty | first=J. C. | authorlink=John Sainty (civil servant) | url=http://www.history.ac.uk/publications/office/lieutenants-scot#S24 | accessdate=16 May 2014 }}</ref> He retired on reaching the age of seventy-five.
Younger was born on 20 May 1939.<ref name=Birth>{{cite web|title=Birthdays today|url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/archive/2013-5-20.html |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130520080952/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/archive/2013-5-20.html |url-status= dead |archive-date= 20 May 2013 |publisher=The Telegraph|accessdate=16 May 2014|date=20 May 2013|quote=Capt J.D.B. Younger, Lord–Lieutenant for Tweeddale, 74 }}</ref> Educated at [[Eton College|Eton]] and the [[Royal Military Academy Sandhurst]], Younger 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 with [[Scottish and Newcastle]] Breweries from 1969 to 1979 before becoming one of the founding partners of the [[Broughton Brewery]] in 1979.<ref name=Debretts/>
In 1969 he became a member of the [[Royal Company of Archers]], which is the Queen's Bodyguard for Scotland, and was its Secretary from 1993 to 2007. He was vice-president of the [[Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland]] in 1994, and became Vice-Lord Lieutenant of Tweeddale in 1992, before becoming Lord Lieutenant in 1994.<ref name=Debretts/>
Younger died after a battle with dementia and cancer on 14 June 2024, at the age of 85.<ref>{{cite news |title=Captain Sir David Younger, KCVO |url=https://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/marketplace/advert/younger-notices_57711 |access-date=1 July 2024 |publisher=The Telegraph |date=21 June 2024}}</ref>
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