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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 ...
The wedding festivities were attended by many political leaders including H. H. Asquith, Sir Harry Verney, 4th Baronet, Wilfrid Laurier, Joseph Ward, Annie Botha, David Lloyd George, John Burns, Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel, Robert Reid, 1st Earl Loreburn, Lewis Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt, Walter Runciman, 1st Viscount Runciman of ...
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.
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.
She married Walter Runciman, 1st Viscount Runciman of Doxford (1870–1949), who was an important member of the Baldwin and Chamberlain governments in the 1930s. Another daughter, Louisa Mary, married Sir Kenneth Skelton Anderson, 1st Baronet of Ardtaraig (1866–1942), the son of the Rev. Alexander Anderson and Mary (Gavin) Anderson, of ...
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
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