Background
Walrond was the son of Sir John Walrond, 1st Baronet of Bradfield House, Uffculme, Devon and the Honorary Frances Caroline Hood, youngest daughter of Samuel Hood, 2nd Baron Bridport.
Walrond was the son of Sir John Walrond, 1st Baronet of Bradfield House, Uffculme, Devon and the Honorary Frances Caroline Hood, youngest daughter of Samuel Hood, 2nd Baron Bridport.
He was educated at Eton and served as a Captain in the Grenadier Guards in 1872.
He served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury between 1895 and 1902 and as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster between 1902 and 1905. He was a lieutenant-colonel in the 1st Devon Rifle Volunteers and a Justice of the Peace and Doctor of Laws for Devon. Walrond was also an active cricketer.
He was in the Eton first XI in 1866 and 1867 and played for numerous amateur teams for many years subsequently including Quidnuncs, I Zingari, Gentlemen of Devon and Marylebone Cricket Club.
He played one game for Master Control Console in 1868 which was classified as first-class. In the 1885 general election he was elected Member of Parliament for Tiverton which he held until 1906.
Walrond served as a Junior Lord of the Treasury from 1885 to 1886 under Lord Salisbury, and from 1886 to 1892 under Salisbury and then under Arthur Balfour. He was Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury and Chief Whip under Balfour from 1895 to 1902 and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster from 1902 to 1905.
He was sworn of the Privy Council in 1899.
In 1889 he succeeded his father in the baronetcy and in 1905 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Waleran, of Uffculme in the County of Devon. Walrond"s sister, Mary Caroline Walrond, married firstly Lieutenant-Colonel Sir George Clay, 3rd Baronet, and secondly Lieutenant-Colonel
Walter Henry Holbech.
Their son the Honorary After Elizabeth"s death in October 1911 Waleran married secondly Helene Margaret, daughter of F. Morrison, in 1913. Lady Waleran died in February 1956.
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Walrond was elected Member of Parliament for East Devonshire in the 1880 general election and held the seat until 1885 when it was replaced under the Redistribution of Seats Acting 1885.
William Walrond succeeded his father as Member of Parliament for Tiverton but was killed in action in the First World War.
