Transcript

of

The Hon. William Lionel Charles Walrond [Obituary]

by

Maxwell Adams (Ed.)

Trans. Devon. Assoc., vol. 48, (1916), pp. 53-54.

Prepared by Michael Steer

The obituary was read at the Association’s July 1916 Plymouth meeting. A reasonably complete biography, with photograph of The Hon. W.L.C Walrond in military uniform is available on The History of Parliament webpage. An impressive potted biography of Lionel Walrond together with two photographs and a copy of the Walrond coat of arms is available in Wikipedia. The obituary, from a copy of a rare and much sought-after journal can be downloaded from the Internet Archive. Google has sponsored the digitisation of books from several libraries. These books, on which copyright has expired, are available for free educational and research use, both as individual books and as full collections to aid researchers.

Mr. Walrond, of Bradfield, Cullompton, M.P. for Tiverton, and railway transport officer, Army Service Corps, who was the younger and only surviving son of the first Baron Waleran, formerly Chief Whip of the Unionist party, and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, was born on the 22nd May, 1876. He was private secretary to his father when Chief Unionist Whip, and in 1906 was elected in the Unionist interest for the Tiverton Division. He married, in 1904, Charlotte Margaret Lothian, elder daughter of Mr. George Coats, of Belleisle, Ayr. His elder son, William George Hood, born March 29th, 1905, becomes heir to the barony.
When the great European War broke out Mr, Walrond was granted a commission as second lieutenant on October 22nd, 1914; and sailed from Southampton for France on 12th December, 1914; became a temporary lieutenant in the Army Service Corps on December 12th; and on May 23rd, 1915, was appointed to the staff as a railway transport officer, graded as a staff-lieutenant, 1st class.
He died 2nd November, 1915, from tubercular laryngitis, contracted while on active service in France, at Craigendinnie, Aboyne, the residence of his wife, his own house, Bradfield, having been converted into a convalescent home for soldiers, under the superintendence of Mrs. Walrond.
Mr. Walrond became a member of the Devonshire Association in 1910.