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Walter Garrison Runciman, 3rd Viscount Runciman of Doxford, CBE, FBA ( born 10 November 1934 ), usually known informally as Garry Runciman, is a leading British historical sociologist.
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Walter and Garrison
News reporter Walter Sheridan tells me and threatens me that he's gonna take Garrison out and take me with him.
Past winners include Walter Cronkite ( 1989 ), Carl T. Rowan ( 1990 ), Helen Thomas ( 1991 ), Tom Brokaw ( 1992 ), Larry King ( 1993 ), Charles Kuralt of CBS ( 1994 ), Albert R. Hunt and Judy Woodruff ( 1995 ), Robert MacNeil ( 1996 ), Cokie Roberts ( 1997 ), Tim Russert and Louis D. Boccardi ( 1998 ), John Seigenthaler ( 1999 ), Jim Lehrer ( 2001 ), Tom Curley ( 2002 ), Don Hewitt of CBS ( 2004 ), Garrison Keillor ( 2005 ), Bob Schieffer of CBS ( 2006 ), John Quinn and Ken Paulson ( 2007 ), Charles Overby ( 2008 ), Katie Couric ( 2009 ), and Brian Lamb of C-SPAN ( 2011 ).
His parents, William — a corporal in the Royal Garrison Artillery — and Marion Hammond ( née Crisp ), lived in the married quarters at Dover Castle where Walter was born.
Walter and Runciman
Educated at Stowe School, he was his father's best man when he married the also widowed Kitty, Lady Farrar, younger daughter of Walter Runciman, 1st Viscount Runciman of Doxford.
Lyell trained with the firm associated with his stepmothers family, Walter Runciman and Co, called to the bar at Inner Temple in 1965.
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.
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.
* Walter Runciman, 2nd Baron Runciman ( 1870 – 1949 ) ( had been created Viscount Runciman of Doxford in 1937 )
Robert and Molly aboard Asgard on a Baltic cruise, 1910With many sporting ventures now closed to him because of his persisting sciatic injury, Childers was encouraged by Walter Runciman, a friend from schooldays, to take up sailing.
There has been much speculation about which of Childers's friends was the model for " Carruthers " in the novel and it seems that he is based not on Henry Childers but on yachting enthusiast Walter Runciman ; " Davies ", of course, is Childers himself.
Walter and 3rd
In June 1941, he was appointed Chief of Staff to General Walter Krueger, Commander of the 3rd Army, at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas.
# Maud Marshal ( 1194 – 27 March 1248 ), married ( 1 ) Hugh Bigod, 3rd Earl of Norfolk, they had four children ; ( 2 ) William de Warenne, 5th Earl of Surrey, they had two children ; ( 3 ) Walter de Dunstanville.
# Walter Marshal, 5th Earl of Pembroke ( c. 1199 – November 1245 ), married Margaret de Quincy, Countess of Lincoln, granddaughter of Hugh de Kevelioc, 3rd Earl of Chester.
These included leading figures of the European ' Enlightenment ' including the philosophers Voltaire, 1694 – 1778 ) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 1712 – 1778 ); the future US Presidents John Adams ( 1735 – 1826 ) and Thomas Jefferson ( 1743 – 1826 ); Benjamin Franklin ( 1706 – 1790 ); the German landscape artist Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau ; the Italian statesman Giuseppe Garibaldi ( 1807 – 1882 ); Russian Tsars Nicholas I ( 1796 – 1855 ) and Alexander I ( 1777 – 1825 ); the king of Persia ; Queen Victoria ( 1819 – 1901 ) and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg ( 1819 – 61 ); Sir Walter Scott ( 1771 – 1832 ); Prince Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau ( 1740 – 1817 ); Prime Ministers William Ewart Gladstone ( 1809 – 1898 ) and Sir Robert Walpole ( 1676 – 1745 ); Queen Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( 1683 – 1737 ); John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute ( 1713 – 92 ) his architect William Burges ( 1827 – 1881 ) and the present Prince of Wales and Princess Margaret.
William was the son of William de Braose, 3rd Lord of Bramber and his wife Bertha of Hereford, also known as Bertha de Pitres, ( born 1130 ) daughter of Miles Fitz Walter, Earl of Hereford and his wife, Sibyl, daughter of Bernard de Neufmarche.
* “ Sellars ’ s Transcendental Empiricism ”, in Julian Nida-Rümelin, ed., Rationality, Realism, Revision ( Proceedings of the 3rd international congress of the Society for Analytical Philosophy ), Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and New York, 1999, pp. 42 – 51.
His studies in English literature were no less comprehensive, and included the valuable revision of Sir Walter Scott's edition of John Dryden's Works ( Edinburgh, 18 vols., 1882 – 1893 ), Dryden ( 1881 ) in the " English Men of Letters " series, History of Elizabethan Literature ( 1887 ), History of Nineteenth Century Literature ( 1896 ), A Short History of English Literature ( 1898, 3rd ed.
* Walter Scott of Branxholme and Buccleuch, 3rd Baron of Buccleuch ( d. 1552 ), son of the 2nd Baron
For his actions during the attack, Walter Peeler, a Lewis-gunner from the 3rd Pioneer Battalion who was attached to 37th Battalion for anti-aircraft duties received the Victoria Cross after he personally led the assault on a number of German positions.
He may in fact have been the son-in-law of Fulk as his widow is recorded with the name of " Margaret Waryn " and was still alive in 1322, as the Inquisition post mortem of Walter's son Walter ( d. 1322 ) ( sometime Escheator of Gloucestershire ) states her to have been then holding in dower 1 / 3rd of the manor of Alveston.
Under the 3rd Baron Holland and his wife, Lady Holland, the house became noted as a glittering social, literary and political centre with many celebrated visitors such as Byron, Thomas Macaulay, the poets Thomas Campbell and Samuel Rogers, ' Conversation ' Sharp, Benjamin Disraeli, Charles Dickens and Sir Walter Scott.
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