William Hood Walrond, 1st Baron Waleran, PC, DL, JP (26 February 1849 – 17 May 1925), known as Sir William Walrond, Bt, between 1889 and 1905, of Bradfield House, Uffculme, Devon, was a British Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 until 1906 when he was raised to the peerage.
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 was Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury and Chief Whip under Balfour from 1895 to 1902 and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster from 11 August 1902 to 1905.
[9] In 1889 he succeeded his father in the baronetcy[2] and in 1905 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Waleran, of Uffculme in the County of Devon.
There were children by the first marriage: Lord Waleran died in May 1925, aged 76, and was succeeded in his titles by his grandson, William.