Victor Warrender, 1st Baron Bruntisfield
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The Right Honourable The Lord Bruntisfield MC |
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| Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty | |
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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 |
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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 | |
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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 (aged 93) |
| 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.
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. 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.
Warrender was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Grantham in 1923, a seat he held until 1942. 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. He was appointed a Lord of the Treasury (government whip) in 1931 under Ramsay MacDonald, was promoted to Vice-Chamberlain of the Household in 1932 and to Comptroller of the Household in May 1935.
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