James Younger, 5th Viscount Younger of Leckie

The Right Honourable The Viscount Younger of Leckie


Member of the House of Lords
Incumbent
Assumed office 23 June 2010
Preceded by	The Earl of Northesk
Personal details
Born	11 November 1955
Political party	Conservative
Parents	George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie
Education	Winchester College
Occupation	Businessman, politician

James Younger, 5th Viscount Younger of Leckie, Bt (born 11 November 1955) is an elected^[1] hereditary peer who sits on the Conservative benches in the House of Lords.

Early life

James Younger was born on 11 November 1955. His father was George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie.

Younger was educated at Winchester College, where he was in the school football team, and the University of St Andrews where he read medieval history. He holds an MBA from Henley Management College.

Career

Younger now works in the field of personnel management and recruitment.^[2]

In June 2010, Younger won the by-election to replace the 14th Earl of Northesk who died in March 2010. Younger inherited his peerage in 2003, after passage of the House of Lords Act 1999, making him one of only a few excepted hereditary members of the House of Lords who was not a member before the act came into force.^[3]

Younger is a deputy chairman of the Buckingham Constituency Conservative Association.^[4]

On 25 June 2012, Younger was appointed a Lord-in-Waiting (Lords Whip).^[5] On 9 January 2013 Lord Younger was appointed as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Intellectual Property at the Department for Business Innovation and Skills, by the Prime Minister.^[6]

Arms

Arms of James Younger, 5th Viscount Younger of Leckie
Coronet A Coronet of a Viscount Crest An Armed Leg couped at the thigh proper garnished and spurred Or Escutcheon Parted per saltire Or and Gules a Rose counterchanged in base Martlet Sable on a Chief Azure three Covered Cups Or Supporters Dexter: A Griffin per fess Ermine and Erminois gorged with a Collar Sable the edges flory-counterflory and chained of the last and on the Collar three Escallops Argent; Sinister: A Wyvern Erect on his tail Ermine similarly collared and chained Motto Labentibus Junior Annis (Younger as the years go by)

References

↑ http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201011/ldhansrd/text/100623-0002.htm#10062341000488
↑ "Viscount Younger of Leckie". gov.uk. Retrieved 28 September 2014.
↑ http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/james-younger/87226
↑ "Party Officers". Buckingham Constituency Conservative Association. Retrieved 26 June 2012.
↑ "Press Notice: Appointment of Lord in Waiting (Government Whip)". Number10.gov.uk. 25 June 2012.
↑ "The Viscount Younger of Leckie appointed as Business Minister". BIS. Retrieved 2013-01-09.

Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by George Younger	Viscount Younger of Leckie 2003–present	Incumbent

British viscounts*

In the peerages of England, Scotland and Great Britain

Hereford Falkland Arbuthnott Oxfuird Bolingbroke & St John Cobham Falmouth Torrington Hood

In the peerage of Ireland *(pre-1801)*

Gormanston Mountgarret Valentia Dillon Massereene & Ferrard Charlemont Downe Molesworth Chetwynd Midleton Boyne Gage Galway Powerscourt Ashbrook Southwell de Vesci Lifford Bangor Doneraile Harberton Hawarden

In the peerages of United Kingdom & Ireland (post-1801)

*Current substantive viscounts, listed by precedence, from highest to lowest

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