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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.
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]
Garry Runciman, 3rd Viscount Runciman of Doxford; S. William Mansfield, 1st Viscount Sandhurst; John Sankey, 1st Viscount Sankey; William Court Gully, 1st Viscount Selby;
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).
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.
Thomas Vesey, 7th Viscount de Vesci Ireland Oliver Vesey: 27 The Viscount Lifford: 1781 Edward Hewitt, 9th Viscount Lifford Ireland James Hewitt: 28 The Viscount Bangor: 1781 William Ward, 8th Viscount Bangor Ireland Edward Ward (half-brother) 29 The Viscount Doneraile: 1785 Richard St Leger, 10th Viscount Doneraile Ireland Nathaniel St Leger: 30
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