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Viscount Runciman of Doxford, of Doxford in the County of Northumberland, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1937 [ 1 ] for the Hon. Walter Runciman , a politician whose career included service as a Member of Parliament , President of the Board of Trade and Lord President of the Council . [ 2 ]
The Runciman family produced a father and son who sat in the House of Lords simultaneously, the father as a baron, the son as a viscount. Both were prominent government ministers, and both were peers of first creation. The first Viscountess, Hilda Runciman, was an MP in her own right briefly.
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Walter Runciman, 1st Viscount Runciman of Doxford, PC (19 November 1870 – 14 November 1949), was a prominent Liberal and later National Liberal politician in the United Kingdom. His 1938 diplomatic mission to Czechoslovakia was key to the enactment of the British policy of appeasement of Nazi Germany preceding the Second World War.
The Viscount Runciman of Doxford: 1937 David Runciman, 4th Viscount Runciman of Doxford: United Kingdom Thomas Runciman: 78 The Viscount Davidson: 1937 Nicolas Davidson, 4th Viscount Davidson United Kingdom none: 79 The Viscount Weir: 1938 William Weir, 3rd Viscount Weir United Kingdom James Weir: 80 The Viscount Caldecote: 1939
Runciman was the eldest son of the politician Walter Runciman (later 1st Viscount Runciman of Doxford) and Hilda Stevenson. He was born in Newcastle upon Tyne and grew up at Doxford Hall. He was educated at Summer Fields School, [1] Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1937 he was awarded the Air Force Cross.
Runciman, Steven, A History of the Crusades, Volume Two, The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Frankish East, 1100-1187, Cambridge University Press, 1952 Oman, Charles, Periods of European History, Volume I: The Dark Ages , 476-918, Rivingtons, London, 1928
In 1898 she married Walter Runciman, a rising politician. They had two sons and three daughters, including Leslie Runciman, 2nd Viscount Runciman of Doxford, Margaret Fairweather, one of the first eight women pilots in the Air Transport Auxiliary, [1] and historian Steven Runciman.