BARON WALERAN
JOINING- VICE-REGAL STAFF
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. AUCKLAND, This Day. An English peer about to join the staff of the Governor-General, Sir Charles Fergusson, arrived from Southampton by the Botorua yesterday. He is Lord Waleran of Uffeulme; the twenty-two -year-old son of the late Hon. William Lionel Charles Walrond, oS Bradfield, Cullompton,' Devon. He was educated at the Trinity College, Cambridge. He succeeded to the barony and baronetcy on the death of his grandfather, Lord Waleran, at the age of 76/ in May, 1925. The first Lord Waleran was for 26 years a well-known Conservative member of Parliament, and he was Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster' from 1902 to 1905. He was a eaptaiu in the Grenadier Guards. In 1889 he succeeded his father in the baronetcy, and was raised to the peerago in 1905. The present Lord Waleran was formerly Mr. William George Hood Walrond, and his father died in '1915, of illness contracted on active service.
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 87, 10 October 1927, Page 8
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162BARON WALERAN Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 87, 10 October 1927, Page 8
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