Viscount Runciman of Doxford

{{short description|Viscountcy in the Peerage of the United Kingdom}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} [[Image:Viscount Runciman of Doxford.JPG|thumb|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<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=34407 |date=11 June 1937 |page=3750 }}</ref> 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.<ref name="auto">{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/law/2020/dec/31/viscount-runciman-of-doxford-obituary-wg-runciman-garry-runciman |title=Viscount Runciman of Doxford obituary |first=David |last=Cannadine |date=31 December 2020 |newspaper=The Guardian}}</ref> He was the son and heir apparent of the shipping magnate and Liberal politician Walter Runciman, who had been created a '''Baronet''' in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom in 1906 and '''Baron Runciman''', of Shoreston in the County of Northumberland, in 1933, also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. As his father was still alive at the time of the creation of the viscountcy the title of this peerage was ''Runciman of Doxford'' rather than simply ''Runciman''. {{As of|2020}} the titles are held by the first Viscount's great-grandson David, the fourth Viscount, who succeeded his father in 2020. He is a well-known political scientist at the University of Cambridge.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.advertiser.ie/galway/article/110353/in-the-21st-century-the-story-of-democracy-will-be-who-gets-the-upper-hand-between-democracy-and-facebook |title='In the 21st century, the story of Democracy will be who gets the upper hand between Democracy and Facebook' |website=Galway Advertiser}}</ref>

Hilda Runciman, Viscountess Runciman of Doxford, wife of the first Viscount, represented St Ives, Cornwall, in the House of Commons from 1928 to 1929. Also, the Hon. Sir Steven Runciman, younger son of the first Viscount and Hilda, Viscountess Runciman of Doxford, was a noted historian.<ref>{{Cite journal |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/41166907 |title=Sir Steven Runciman (1903-2000) A Memoir |jstor=41166907 |author=Abulafia, David |year=2000 |journal=Mediterranean Studies |volume=9 |pages=1–16}}</ref>

==Baronet, of Doxford (1906)== * Walter Runciman, 1st Baronet (1847–1937) (created '''Baron Runciman''' in 1933)

===Baron Runciman (1933)=== * Walter Runciman, 1st Baron Runciman (1847–1937) * Walter Runciman, 2nd Baron Runciman (1870–1949)<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp03896/walter-runciman-1st-viscount-runciman-of-doxford |title=Walter Runciman, 1st Viscount Runciman of Doxford - National Portrait Gallery |website=www.npg.org.uk}}</ref> (had been created '''Viscount Runciman of Doxford''' in 1937)

===Viscount Runciman of Doxford (1937)=== * Walter Runciman, 1st Viscount Runciman of Doxford (1870–1949) * Walter Leslie Runciman, 2nd Viscount Runciman of Doxford (1900–1989)<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/rmgc-object-14461 |title=Walter Leslie Runciman, 1900-89, 2nd Viscount Runciman of Doxford | Royal Museums Greenwich |website=www.rmg.co.uk}}</ref> * Walter Garrison Runciman, 3rd Viscount Runciman of Doxford (1934–2020)<ref name="auto"/> * David Walter Runciman, 4th Viscount Runciman of Doxford (b. 1967)

==Arms== {{Emblem table | name = Viscounts Runciman of Doxford<ref>{{cite book |year=2002 |title=Debrett's peerage and baronetage |publisher=Debrett's Peerage Ltd. |page=1392 |isbn=978-0-333-66093-5 |url=https://archive.org/details/debrettspeerageb0000unse_r0m8/page/1392}}</ref> | image = Coat of arms of Viscounts Runciman of Doxford.svg | imagesize = 200px | notes = | year_adopted = | coronet = | crest = A seahorse erect gules, holding in the fore fins a thistle as in the arms. | torse = | helm = | escutcheon = Per fess or and azure a lymphad oars in action, the sail charged with a thistle leaved and slipped proper, flags flying to the dexter gules. | supporters = On either side a seahorse or gorged with a chain pendent therefrom a grappling iron azure. | compartment = | motto = "By sea" | orders = | other_elements = | bannerimage = | banner = | badgetitle =  | badgeimage =  | badge = | badge2title =  | badge2image =  | badge2 = | badge3title =  | badge3image =  | badge3 = | symbolism = | previous_versions = | other_versions = }}

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==External links== * Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, {{Page needed |date=February 2013}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20101121004746/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,786732,00.html "Pride"] ''Time'' 19 March 1928. {{Extant British viscountcies}}

{{s-start}} {{s-reg|uk-bt}} {{succession box | title= 20px<br />Runciman baronets <br />''of Doxford'' | before= Huntington baronets | years= 23 July 1906 | after= Schuster baronets }} {{s-end}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Runciman Of Doxford}} Category:Viscountcies in the Peerage of the United Kingdom * Category:Noble titles created in 1937 Category:Peerages created for UK MPs

Viscount Runciman of Doxford

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