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Walter Garrison Runciman, 3rd Viscount Runciman of Doxford (10 November 1934 – 10 December 2020), usually known informally as Garry Runciman, [1] was a British historical sociologist and hereditary peer. A senior research fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, Runciman wrote several publications in his
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.
Runciman was born in St John's Wood, North London, England, and grew up there.His father, Garry Runciman, 3rd Viscount Runciman, was a political sociologist and academic and his mother, Ruth Runciman, is former chair of the UK Mental Health Commission, a founder of the Prison Reform Trust and former chair of the National Aids Trust. [4]
Walter Runciman, 1st Viscount Runciman of Doxford (1870–1949), son of the above, Liberal and later National Liberal MP and government minister; Walter Leslie Runciman, 2nd Viscount Runciman of Doxford (1900–1989) Walter Garry Runciman, 3rd Viscount Runciman of Doxford, British historical sociologist
Walter Runciman, 1st Baron Runciman, shipping magnate, Liberal MP, and peer; Walter Runciman, 1st Viscount Runciman of Doxford, Liberal and later National Liberal MP and government minister; Walter Leslie Runciman, 2nd Viscount Runciman of Doxford (Walter) Garry Runciman, 3rd Viscount Runciman of Doxford, British historical sociologist
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[64] W. G. Runciman writes: "If there was a single characteristic of the Christian religion which distinguished it from all its competitors, Judaism included, it was the willingness, at least in principle, of Christians not only to accept converts from wherever they came [such as slaves and women] but to display, or at least be prepared to ...