Monday, 19 March 2018
1857 Sir Walter Runciman
Constituency : The Hartlepools 1914-18
Sir Walter took over at Hartlepool on the death of Stephen Furness.
Walter was the son of a Scottish schooner master. He ran away to sea at 11 and worked his way up until he was in a position to found a shipping line, the South Shields Shipping Company, of his own. He was created a baronet in 1906. Walter was a teetotaller.
Walter denounced the German naval assault on Hartlepool in 1914 as "a colossal act of murder by ingrained soundrels".
Walter stood down in 1918.
In 1932 walter became President of the Shipping Fderation.
In 1933 Walter was created Baron Runciman. He never spoke in either House.
Walter wrote a number of books including an account of Napoleon's exile in St Helena.
He died in 1937 aged 90. His son Walter had preceded him into the Commons.
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