Sir Alexander William Younger KCMG, died 2 June, 2026, aged 62.
He was a scion of the Younger brewing family from whom descend the Viscounts Younger of Leckie, and Camilla, Countess of Halifax, wife of the 3rd Earl.
Younger was an intelligence officer who served as the Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), from 2014 to 2020. In April 2019, the government extended Younger's contract to maintain stability through the Brexit negotiations, which made him the longest-serving MI6 chief in 50 years.
He was appointed CMG in 2011, and advanced to KCMG in 2019.
He was born 4 July, 1963, son of Nicholas Roland Younger (1934-2010), and his wife the former Mary Patricia Fleming Edge (born 20 Aug, 1940), daughter of Major-General Raymond Cyril Alexander Edge, CB (1912-2000); and married in 1993, Sarah Hopkins, daughter of Sir Michael John Hopkins, CBE, RA (1935-2023), and his wife the former Patricia Anne (Patty) Wainwright, CBE (born 1942), by whom he had issue, two sons, Sam (born 16 Sept, 1996), and Tom (born 7 Apr, 1998), and a daughter, Amy (born 10 Dec, 1994). He was predeceased by his elder son, Sam, who died as the result of an accident in Scotland, 30 March, 2019.
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