| The Right Honourable The Lord Bruntisfield MC |
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| Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty | |
| In office 18 June 1935 – 28 November 1935 |
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| Monarch | George V |
| Prime Minister | Stanley Baldwin |
| Preceded by | Lord Stanley |
| Succeeded by | Lord Stanley |
| In office 3 April 1940 – 26 July 1945 |
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| Monarch | George VI |
| Prime Minister | Neville Chamberlain Winston Churchill |
| Preceded by | Geoffrey Shakespeare |
| Succeeded by | John Dugdale |
| Financial Secretary to the War Office | |
| In office 28 November 1935 – 3 April 1940 |
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| Monarch | George V Edward VIII George VI |
| Prime Minister | Stanley Baldwin Neville Chamberlain |
| Preceded by | Douglas Hacking |
| Succeeded by | Sir Edward Grigg |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 23 June 1899 |
| Died | 14 January 1993 |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | (1) Dorothy Rawson (d. 1975) (2) Tania Kolin (d. 2007) |
Victor Alexander George Anthony Warrender, 1st Baron Bruntisfield MC (23 June 1899 – 14 January 1993), known as Sir Victor Warrender, Bt, between 1917 and 1942, was a British Conservative politician. He held minor political office between 1928 and 1945, notably as Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty from 1940 to 1945 in Winston Churchill's war-time coalition government. In 1942 he was ennobled as Baron Bruntisfield.
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Warrender was the eldest son of Vice-Admiral Sir George Warrender, 7th Baronet, by Lady Ethel Maud Ashley-Cooper, daughter of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 8th Earl of Shaftesbury.[1] He was baptised with Queen Victoria as one of his godparents and was educated at Eton. His younger brother was the actor Harold Warrender. He served as a Lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards in the First World War and was awarded the Military Cross.[1]
Warrender was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Grantham in 1923, a seat he held until 1942.[1][2] He was Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Under-Secretary of State for India, Lord Winterton, from 1924 to 1928 and entered the government as an Assistant Government Whip under Stanley Baldwin in 1928, a post he held until the government fell in 1929.[3] He was appointed a Lord of the Treasury (government whip) in 1931 under Ramsay MacDonald,[4] was promoted to Vice-Chamberlain of the Household in 1932[5] and to Comptroller of the Household in May 1935.[6]
After Baldwin became prime minister for the third time in June 1935, Warrender was made Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty.[7] Already in November 1935 he exchanged this office for that of Financial Secretary to the War Office. He continued in this post when Neville Chamberlain became prime minister in 1937. When Chamberlain reshuffled his government in early April 1940, Warrender once again became Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty. He retained this office when Winston Churchill became prime minister in May 1940, and continued in it until Churchill resigned in July 1945.[1] On 10 March 1942 Warrender was elevated to the peerage as Baron Bruntisfield, of Boroughmuir in the City of Edinburgh.[8]
Lord Bruntisfield married Dorothy Rawson (d. 1975), daughter of Lt-Col Richard Hamilton Rawson, MP for Reigate, on June 1, 1920. They had three children:
Lord and Lady Bruntisfield were divorced in 1945. Lady Bruntisfield was later invested as an Officer, Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem (O.St.J.). She died in July 1975. Lord Bruntisfield married secondly, Tania , daughter of Dr Michael Kolin, on 22 June 1948. They had two children:
Lord Bruntisfield died in January 1993, aged 93, and was succeeded by his eldest son, John. Lady Bruntisfield died in June 2007.[1]
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| Preceded by Robert Pattinson |
Member of Parliament for Grantham 1923–1942 |
Succeeded by William Denis Kendall |
| Political offices | ||
| Preceded by Sir Frederick Penny |
Vice-Chamberlain of the Household 1932–1935 |
Succeeded by Lambert Ward |
| Preceded by Eric Henry Bonham |
Comptroller of the Household May–June 1935 |
Succeeded by George Bowyer |
| Preceded by Lord Stanley |
Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty June–November 1935 |
Succeeded by Lord Stanley |
| Preceded by Douglas Hacking |
Financial Secretary to the War Office 1935–1940 |
Succeeded by Sir Edward Grigg |
| Preceded by Geoffrey Shakespeare |
Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty 1940–1945 |
Succeeded by John Dugdale |
| Peerage of the United Kingdom | ||
| New creation | Baron Bruntisfield 1942–1993 |
Succeeded by John Warrender |
| Baronetage of Great Britain | ||
| Preceded by George Warrender |
Baronet (of Lochend) 1917–1993 |
Succeeded by John Warrender |