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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 ]
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.
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]
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Runciman married novelist Rosamond Nina Lehmann in 1923. They were divorced in 1928 and he remarried Katherine Schuyler Garrison in 1932. Their only child, the Hon. Walter Garrison Runciman, later 3rd Viscount Runciman of Doxford, was born in 1934. [5]
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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.