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Warrender was the son of Sir George Warrender, 6th Baronet and Helen Purves-Hume-Campbell, born at Bruntsfield House, Edinburgh, one of six children. Warrender joined the navy as a cadet in 1873 at Dartmouth. [1] He qualified as a French interpreter in 1878. [1] He served in the Zulu War in 1879 as midshipman on the corvette HMS Boadicea. [1]
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.
The title became extinct on the death of the eighth Baronet in 1960. Helen Purves-Hume-Campbell, daughter of the seventh baronet, married Sir George Warrender, 7th Baronet and was the mother of Vice-Admiral Sir George Warrender, 7th Baronet and grandmother of Victor Warrender, 1st Baron Bruntisfield.
Baron Bruntisfield, of Boroughmuir in the City of Edinburgh, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.It was created in 1942 for the Scottish Conservative politician and former Vice-Chamberlain of the Household, Sir Victor Warrender, 8th Baronet.
Peerages and baronetcies of Britain and Ireland Extant All Dukes Dukedoms Marquesses Marquessates Earls Earldoms Viscounts Viscountcies Barons Baronies Baronets Baronetcies En, Ir, NS, GB, UK (extinct) This is a list of baronetcies in the Baronetage of Great Britain. There were first created in 1707, and was replaced by the Baronetage of the United Kingdom in 1801. A Title Date of creation ...
Sir George Warrender, 7th Baronet K.C.B. K.C.V.O. (1860–1917), vice-admiral in the British Royal Navy during World War I; Sir Patrick Warrender, 3rd Baronet (1731–1799), Scottish soldier and politician; Victor Warrender, 1st Baron Bruntisfield MC PC (1899–1993), Conservative politician
The Royal Victorian Order is an order of knighthood awarded by the sovereign of the United Kingdom and several Commonwealth realms. It is granted personally by the monarch and recognises personal service to the monarchy, the Royal Household , royal family members, and the organisation of important royal events.
Sir Victor Warrender, 8th Baronet, Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty; Austin Uvedale Morgan Hudson, Civil Lord; Sir James Lithgow, 1st Baronet, Controller of Merchant Shipbuilding and Repairs; 8 April 1940: Commission Winston Churchill, First Lord; Sir Dudley Pound, First Sea Lord; Sir Charles Little, Second Sea Lord