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Hon. Lisa Runciman (born 18 August 1965) David Walter Runciman, 4th Viscount Runciman of Doxford (born 1 March 1967) Hon. Catherine Runciman (born 18 July 1969) Runciman died on 10 December 2020. [1] His heir, the 4th Viscount, is a political scientist and writer who teaches at Cambridge University as a Professor of Politics. [1] [14]
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]
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.
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
1934 – Garry Runciman, 3rd Viscount Runciman of Doxford, English sociologist and academic (d. 2020) 1934 – A. Thurairajah, Sri Lankan engineer and academic (d. 1994) 1934 – Clio Maria Bittoni, Italian lawyer (d. 2024) [33] 1935 – Bernard Babior, American physician and biochemist (d. 2004)
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Opinion by Marek Warszawski: “Who doesn’t want a bunch of political cronies choosing our library materials?”
Onora Sylvia O'Neill was born on 23 August 1941 in Aughafatten. [1] [2] The daughter of Sir Con O'Neill, she was educated partly in Germany and at St Paul's Girls' School, London, before studying philosophy, psychology and physiology at Somerville College, Oxford.