Hilda Runciman (née Stevenson), Viscountess Runciman Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Hilda Runciman (née Stevenson), Viscountess Runciman NPG x94118

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Walter Benington, for Elliott & Fry

Educated at Notting Hill High School and Girton College, Cambridge. In 1898 Hilda Stevenson married Walter Runciman (1870-1949), later Viscount Runciman with whom she had five children. In her twenties, Hilda Runciman became a forceful and confident speaker on education, housing and social work. She was president of the Women's National Liberal Federation (1919-21) and advocated independent Liberalism exercising a significant political influence. She was briefly MP for St Ives (1928-9) before standing down in favour of her husband.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.

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