Walter Runciman (1870-1949; ODNB), MP (L) Oldham, 1899-1900, Dewsbury, 1902-18, Swansea West, 1924-29, and St Ives, 1929-37 (from 1931, Liberal National); a shipowner, Wesleyan methodist, and teetotaller; parliamentary secretary, local government board, 1905-7; financial secretary, Treasury, 1907-8; president of the board of education 1908-11, the board of agriculture, 1911-14, and the board of trade, 1914-16, 1931-7; 1st viscount Runciman, 1937; mission to Czechoslovakian government during the Sudeten crisis, 1938; lord president of the council, 1938-9; Doxford Hall, Northumberland. See also Volume 69, 71, 75.

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• 26 Jul 1915
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• 29 Oct 1918