The firmly Liberal Runcimans had entrusted the education of their children to one of the last seventeenth century Tories in Britain

Torby's [Runciman's governess] interests were academic though not dry, her instincts artistic but not fanciful. She treated her adopted Episcopalian religion in a spirit of hereditary romance; her politics, accordingly, were entirely traditional. The firmly Liberal Runcimans had entrusted the education of their children to one of the last seventeenth century Tories in Britain.

M. Dinshaw, Outlandish knight: the Byzantine life of Steven Runciman (2016), 4-5