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Walter Runciman, 1st Viscount, etching by William Strang, 1913 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 ...
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 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.
John Sankey, 1st Viscount Sankey; William Court Gully, 1st Viscount Selby; Robert Lowe; John Slim, 2nd Viscount Slim; Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden; James Ramsbotham, 2nd Viscount Soulbury; Stephen Benn, 3rd Viscount Stansgate; Tony Benn; William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate; Stratford Canning, 1st Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe
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Walter Runciman may refer to: Walter Runciman, 1st Baron Runciman (1847–1937), shipping magnate, Liberal MP, and peer Walter Runciman, 1st Viscount Runciman of Doxford (1870–1949), son of the above, Liberal and later National Liberal MP and government minister
Walter Runciman, 1st Viscount Runciman of Doxford Hilda Stevenson Sir James Cochran Stevenson Runciman CH FBA (7 July 1903 – 1 November 2000), known as Steven Runciman , was an English historian best known for his three-volume A History of the Crusades (1951–54).