Hilda Runciman

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Hilda Runciman (nee Stevenson) (1869 – 28 October 1956) was a British Liberal Party politician.

The daughter of James Cochran Stevenson, a Liberal Member of Parliament for South Shields, Hilda was educated at Girton College, Cambridge, and in 1898 married Walter Runciman, a rising politician.

She became an MP in her own right in 1928, as Member of Parliament for St Ives, though she remained in Parliament for only one year. In 1937, her husband became Viscount Runciman of Doxford, and she became a Viscountess.