Richard Younger-Ross

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Richard Younger-Ross MP
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Member of Parliament for Teignbridge
Incumbent
Assumed office 7 June 2001
Preceded by	Patrick Nicholls
Succeeded by	Incumbent
Majority	6,215 (10.2%)

Born	29 January 1953 (1953-01-29) (age 56) Surrey
Nationality	British
Political party	Liberal Democrat
Spouse	Susan Younger (married 1982)

Richard Alan Younger-Ross (born Richard Alan Ross, January 29, 1953, Surrey) is a politician in England. He is the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Teignbridge, having fought the seat in 1992 and 1997, finally winning in the 2001 election, and was re-elected in 2005, when he beat off competition from Boris Johnson's father Stanley.

1 Early life
2 Parliamentary career
3 Personal life
4 External links

[edit] Early life

He went to Walton County Secondary School for Boys (a secondary modern, became Ambleside Junior School, then Walton Oak primary school) on Ambleside Avenue in Walton on Thames, Brooklands Technical College on Heath Road in Weybridge, then Ewell Technical College (now called North East Surrey College Of Technology - NESCOT) in Ewell. He studied at Oxford Polytechnic. Before becoming a politician, he was an architectural consultant.

[edit] Parliamentary career

He has been a member of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee and the European Scrutiny Committee since 2005, and since the Liberal Democrats Shadow Cabinet reshuffle of 2007 he has also been a shadow minister for Culture, Media and Sport.

In 2006, Younger-Ross proposed a Ten Minute Rule Bill restricting Sunday trading hours in the UK for shops, arguing that without such legislation the British people would lose "rhythm of life" (House of Commons Debate, 24/05/2006).

[edit] Personal life

Richard moved to Teignmouth, Devon in 1989, with his wife, Susan Younger, who he married in 1982 in Oxford. Younger-Ross is a Roman Catholic, attending a church in Teignmouth.