restored without delay". Prior to the committee's creation, Cunliffe had criticised the young John Maynard Keynes: "Mr. Keynes, in commercial circles, is not considered to have any knowledge or experience in practical exchange or business problems". Personal life In 1880, he was given the original farmhouse estate of Headley Court, formerly the main manor of the village, and its remaining , by his father, on the condition that he would make a career in banking, rather than become a farmer. He redeveloped it in 1898. The family fortune had been made by his grandfather, James Cunliffe, with his development of the North Eastern Railway (UK). He had the new house built in 1898 by Edward Prioleau Warren. He employed Lawrence Turner for the ceilings and plasterwork. Cunliffe married, firstly, Mary Agnes (died 1893) in 1890, younger daughter of Robert Henderson. He married secondly to Edith Cunningham, fifth daughter of Colonel Robert Tod Boothby, in 1896. They had three sons and three daughters. His son, Geoffrey, married actress Barbara Waring. Walter Cunliffe died at his home, Headley Court, 6 January 1920 (aged 64), from septicaemia. His son Rolf succeeded to his title. Arms Footnotes References "Interim Report of the Cunliffe Committee, 1918" World Gold Council, Accessed on 6 March 2006. "Tyrrells Wood Golf Club - Club History - The People" Tyrrells Wood Golf Club website, Accessed 8 March 2006. Cunliffe, Walter Cunliffe, 1st Baron. (2006). Encyclopædia Britannica. Accessed 8 March 2006. Bodenstein, Julia. office / politics / women in the workplace 1860-2004 London Metropolitan University website, Accessed 8 March 2006. Peden, George. "The Treasury and the City, 1901-c.1960" Department of History, University of Durham website, Accessed 8 March 2006. 1855 births 1920 deaths People educated at Harrow School Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge English bankers Governors of the Bank of England Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire Commandeurs of the Légion d'honneur Deaths from sepsis High Sheriffs of the County of London Deputy Governors of the Bank of England Barons created by George V