Irish Free State. In March 1921, Bonar Law resigned as party leader due to ill-health. Sir Austen Chamberlain finally succeeded him in the former office after a ten-year wait. But Long too, getting tired and old, was 'kicked upstairs' with a peerage. He was appointed Lord-Lieutenant of Wiltshire in February 1920, and was raised to the peerage as Viscount Long, of Wraxall in the County of Wiltshire, in May 1921. Personal life Lord Long married Lady Dorothy (Doreen) Blanche, daughter of the 9th Earl of Cork and Orrery, in 1878. They had two sons, including Brigadier General Walter Long, who was killed in action in 1917, and three daughters. He died at his home, Rood Ashton House in Wiltshire, in September 1924, aged 70, and was succeeded by his 13-year-old grandson Walter. Lady Long died in June 1938. Bibliography Writings Long, Viscount Walter Hume, Memories (London 1923) Primary sources Secondary sources References Further reading Inheriting the Earth: The Long Family's 500 Year Reign in Wiltshire; Cheryl Nicol at longfamilyofwiltshire.webs.com External links Photograph in the National Portrait Gallery 1854 births 1924 deaths People educated at Harrow School Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford Long, Walter Hume, 1st Viscount Long Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies First Lords of the Admiralty Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Dublin constituencies (1801–1922) British Secretaries of State Irish Unionist Party MPs Irish Anglicans UK MPs 1880–1885 UK MPs 1885–1886 UK MPs 1886–1892 UK MPs 1892–1895 UK MPs 1895–1900 UK MPs 1900–1906 UK MPs 1906–1910 UK MPs 1910 UK MPs 1910–1918 UK MPs 1918–1922 UK MPs who were granted peerages Deputy Lieutenants of Wiltshire English justices of the peace Lord-Lieutenants of Wiltshire Presidents of the Marylebone Cricket Club Walter People from Trowbridge Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Liverpool constituencies Fellows of the Royal Society Directors of the Great Western Railway Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom Members of the Privy Council of Ireland Chief Secretaries for Ireland Secretaries of State for the Colonies Irish Conservative Party MPs Viscounts created by George V Leaders of the Ulster Unionist Party