| George Younger
Appointed Scottish secretary in 1979, George Younger became defence secretary in 1986 after Michael Heseltine resigned over the government's backing for the sale of Westland helicopters to an American firm.
He resigned in 1989 to become full-time chairman of the Royal Bank of Scotland. He was made a life peer, becoming Lord Younger of Prestwick in 1992, but inherited the family's baronetcy and viscountcy upon the death of his father in 1997, becoming the fourth Viscount Younger of Leckie.
He died, aged 71, in January 2003.
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