Baron Moran, of Manton in the County of Wiltshire, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
It was created on 8 March 1943 for the physician Charles Wilson(10 Nov 1882 - 12 Apr 1977). He is chiefly remembered as Winston Churchill's personal physician during the Second World War and was President of the Royal College of Physicians from 1941 to 1949.
As of 2009 the title is held by his eldest son, the second Baron, who succeeded in 1977. He is a retired diplomat and has notably served as British Ambassador to Hungary and Portugal and as British High Commissioner to Canada from 1981 to 1984. Lord Moran is also one of the ninety elected hereditary peers that remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999, and sits as a crossbencher.
On leaving his post of High Commissioner to Canada in 1984, Moran penned a frank final telegram to the British Foreign Minister in which he was critical of Canadian politicians and public policies.[1] The telegram became public in October 2009 after a BBC columnist, Matthew Parris, made a freedom of information request for the foreign office's valedictory despatches.[2][3]
The heir apparent is the present holder's son the Hon. James McMoran Wilson (b. 1952)
The heir apparent's heir apparent is his son David Andrew McMoran Wilson (b. 1990)