William Walrond, 1st Baron Waleran

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William Walrond, 1st Baron Waleran

William Hood Walrond, 1st Baron Waleran , PC , DL , JP (* 26. February 1849 ; † 17th May 1925 ) was a British politician of the Conservative Party , the 1880-1905 deputy of the lower house ( House of Commons ) as well as from 1902 to 1905 Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster ( Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster ) was. After 1905 Baron Waleran was raised, he was until his death in 1925 a member of the upper house ( House of Lords ) .

Life

Coat of arms of the Baron Waleran

William Hood Walrond was the eldest son and the second of eight children of the politician John Walrond Walrond , who was also a member of the House of Commons between 1865 and 1868 and who was raised to Baronet Walrond, of Bradfield, in the County of Devon, in 1876 , and his wife Frances Caroline Hood, daughter of Samuel Hood, 2nd Baron Bridport and Charlotte Hood, 3rd Duchess of Bronté . One of his sisters, Margaret Walrond was with Charles Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis, 20th Baron Clinton married, a lower house deputy who 1867-1868 Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of India, and from 1887 to 1904 Lord Lieutenant of the County of Devon was. Another younger sister, Gertrude Walrond, was married to House of Commons Thomas Dyke Acland , who in 1898 inherited the title of 12th Baronet Acland, of St Columb John. His younger sister Mary Caroline Walrond was first married to Lieutenant Colonel Sir George Clay, who in 1876 inherited the title of 3rd Baronet Clay, of Fulwell Lodge. His only brother was Colonel Arthur Melville Hood Walrond.

After attending the prestigious Eton College William Walrond served in the Guards Grenadier Regiment Grenadier Guards and was last to Hauptmann (Captain) transported. On March 31, 1880 he was elected for the first time for the Conservative Party as a member of the House of Commons and initially represented the constituency of Devon Eastern until November 24, 1885 . After the dissolution of this constituency, he was again a member of the lower house on November 24, 1885 and represented the Tiverton constituency until December 23, 1905 . In the first cabinet Salisbury (June 24, 1885 until January 28, 1886) and again in the second Cabinet Salisbury was (August 3, 1886 to August 15, 1892) he Lord to the Treasury ( Lord of the Treasury ) . After his father's death on April 23, 1889, he inherited the title of 2nd Baronet Walrond, of Bradfield, in the County of Devon.

In the third Cabinet Salisbury William Walrond served between June 25, 1895 June 11, 1902 as Parliamentary Secretary of the Treasury (Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury) , and at the same time as the first Parliamentary Secretary (Chief Whip ) the fraction of the Conservative Party in the House. As such, he became a member of the Privy Council on March 7, 1899 . In the following Balfour cabinet he took over on August 11, 1902 from Henry James, 1st Baron James of Hereford, the office of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster ( Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster ) and held this until December 4, 1905. After leaving the House of Commons, he was raised to a hereditary peer by a letters patent dated December 23, 1905 in the Peerage of the United Kingdom as Baron Waleran , of Uffculme, in the County of Devon May 1925 was a member of the House of Lords .

William Hood Walrond was married twice. His first marriage was on April 11, 1871, Elizabeth Katharine Pitman, who died on October 11, 1911. From this marriage two daughters and two sons were born. The daughter Dorothy Katharine Walrond was married to Arthur Robert Pyers Southwell, 5th Viscount Southwell of Castle Mattress . His daughter Evelyn Maud Walrond was the wife of barrister George Russell Northcote. His older son John Walrond died as a teenager, while his second son William Lionel Charles Walrond was his successor in 1906 in the constituency of Tiverton , but fell during the First World War on November 2, 1915. Therefore, after his death on May 17, 1925, his grandson William George Hood Walrond , the son of William Lionel Charles Walrond, inherited the titles of Baronet Walrond and 2nd Baron Waleran. His second marriage to Helena Margaret Morrison, which was concluded on October 28, 1913, remained childless.

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predecessor Office successor
John Walrond Walrond Baronet Walrond, of Bradfield
1889-1905 		William George Hood Walrond
New title created Baron Waleran
1905-1925 		William George Hood Walrond
personal data
SURNAME Walrond, William, 1st Baron Waleran
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Walrond, William Hood, 1st Baron Waleran; Walrond, William Hood, 2nd Baronet Walrond
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician, MP and peer
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1849
DATE OF DEATH May 17, 1925