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Captain Sir James Paton Younger (1891-1976)


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Captain Sir James Paton Younger (1891-1976)

Son of Sir James Younger (1856-1946) and Annie Paton. He was the nephew of George Younger 1st, Viscount Younger of Leckie. He lived at Mount Melville, St Andrews and Anrsbrae near Alloa. He was educated at Eton and Balliol College Oxford. He was Captain 3rd Battalion Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders in World War I. Chairman: Patons Scottish Knitwear Holdings, George Younger & sons, Alloa, United Caledonian Breweries and Western Regional Hospital Board Scotland. Director Charrington United Breweries. Lord Lt. of Clackmannanshire 1955-56. J.P. for Clackmannanshire 1933. C.B.E. 1945.

Hello everyone,

I was delighted to find this thread as it filled in a few spaces on how my family is linked to the Alloa Youngers. The daughter mentioned below, Anne Younger, is my 2x great grandmother. She married Dougal Craig, an engineer in Monkwearmouth - I wonder how they met? They had two sons, John and James, before being widowed (he died in rural Wiltshire). Anne then remarried ? Robinson but I don't know whether she had any further children. Captain John Craig, Anne's son, had four children (three daughters and one son), only one of whom had a child (my father, John Forbes). John Craig's brother, James, was a sugar merchant and married a young woman called Emily Maud Gamble late in life. I don't know whether he had any children.

It would be interesting to know more about the man from Lasswade - he and I must be related but I'm not sure how. If anyone can help then I'd love to hear from them.

OK.

The Younger families used the same male Christain names across the generations.

I have some information gleamed from a copy of a letter that the Scottish Brewing Archives sent me.

Quote - "My great grandfather Robert Younger, b 1802, the father of my granny Anne Younger, was the brother of George Younger, brewer, b 1790, and uncle of James and of Robert Younger who founded St.Anns Brewery in Edinburgh."

I suspect that would be the Robert Younger you are interested in ?

The letter was written in 1996 by a gentlemen in West Lothian in response to research being carried out by Alma Topen for the SBA. I have the address etc., however I would not wish to pass it on without his permission.