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'''David Guest''' (6 January 1911<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ilofBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA255&lpg=PA255&dq=david+guest+spain+buried&source=bl&ots=Ga6kuOSCPm&sig=e-GSnIiyGz6CbVwr4IyRfc3P2-0&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj9_dj7qLvKAhVDthQKHW0VAk4Q6AEIMDAD#v=onepage&q=david%20guest%20spain%20buried&f=false|title=Spanische Erinnerungskultur: Die Assmann’sche Theorie des kulturellen Gedächtnisses und der Bürgerkrieg 1936–1939|page=255|author=Birgit Sondergeld|publisher=Springer-Verlag|year=2010|accessdate=21 January 2015}}</ref>– 28 July 1938) was a British [[mathematics|mathematician]] and philosopher who volunteered to fight for the [[Second Spanish Republic|Republicans]] in the [[Spanish Civil War]] and was killed in Spain in 1938. |
'''David Guest''' (6 January 1911<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ilofBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA255&lpg=PA255&dq=david+guest+spain+buried&source=bl&ots=Ga6kuOSCPm&sig=e-GSnIiyGz6CbVwr4IyRfc3P2-0&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj9_dj7qLvKAhVDthQKHW0VAk4Q6AEIMDAD#v=onepage&q=david%20guest%20spain%20buried&f=false|title=Spanische Erinnerungskultur: Die Assmann’sche Theorie des kulturellen Gedächtnisses und der Bürgerkrieg 1936–1939|page=255|author=Birgit Sondergeld|publisher=Springer-Verlag|year=2010|accessdate=21 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160131051417/https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ilofBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA255&lpg=PA255&dq=david+guest+spain+buried&source=bl&ots=Ga6kuOSCPm&sig=e-GSnIiyGz6CbVwr4IyRfc3P2-0&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj9_dj7qLvKAhVDthQKHW0VAk4Q6AEIMDAD#v=onepage&q=david%20guest%20spain%20buried&f=false|archive-date=31 January 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>– 28 July 1938) was a British [[mathematics|mathematician]] and philosopher who volunteered to fight for the [[Second Spanish Republic|Republicans]] in the [[Spanish Civil War]] and was killed in Spain in 1938. |
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==Biography== |
==Biography== |
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Guest was the son of [[Leslie Haden-Guest, 1st Baron Haden-Guest]]. He entered [[Trinity College, Cambridge]], in 1929 and studied from 1930 to 1931 in [[Göttingen]] in Germany, where he was sentenced to two weeks in prison for anti-[[Nazism|Nazi]] political activity. On his return he joined the [[Communist Party of Great Britain|Communist Party]] at Cambridge in 1931.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.grahamstevenson.me.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=250:david-guest&catid=7:g&Itemid=108|title=David Guest|author=Michael Walker|publisher=Communist Biogs|accessdate=21 January 2015}}</ref> There Guest became the head of a party cell that included [[John Cornford]], [[Guy Burgess]], [[Donald Maclean (spy)|Donald Maclean]], [[Victor Kiernan]] and [[James Klugmann]].<ref> |
Guest was the son of [[Leslie Haden-Guest, 1st Baron Haden-Guest]]. He entered [[Trinity College, Cambridge]], in 1929 and studied from 1930 to 1931 in [[Göttingen]] in Germany, where he was sentenced to two weeks in prison for anti-[[Nazism|Nazi]] political activity. On his return he joined the [[Communist Party of Great Britain|Communist Party]] at Cambridge in 1931.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.grahamstevenson.me.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=250:david-guest&catid=7:g&Itemid=108|title=David Guest|author=Michael Walker|publisher=Communist Biogs|accessdate=21 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160126194308/http://www.grahamstevenson.me.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=250:david-guest&catid=7:g&Itemid=108|archive-date=26 January 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> There Guest became the head of a party cell that included [[John Cornford]], [[Guy Burgess]], [[Donald Maclean (spy)|Donald Maclean]], [[Victor Kiernan]] and [[James Klugmann]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://spartacus-educational.com/David_Guest.htm |title=Biography of David Guest |access-date=18 September 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141020060341/http://spartacus-educational.com/David_Guest.htm |archive-date=20 October 2014 |url-status=live }}</ref> This enabled dons such as [[Maurice Dobb]] and [[John Bernal]] to take a back-seat. It was claimed that David Guest would "stride into hall at Trinity wearing a hammer and sickle pin in his lapel."<ref> Phillip Knightley, Philby: KGB Masterspy (1988) page 32</ref> |
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After leaving Cambridge Guest lectured in [[mathematics]] and worked for the Communist party at the ''Peoples' Bookshop'' in [[Lavender Hill]], also teaching for a short while at a secondary school for English-speaking children in Moscow. |
After leaving Cambridge Guest lectured in [[mathematics]] and worked for the Communist party at the ''Peoples' Bookshop'' in [[Lavender Hill]], also teaching for a short while at a secondary school for English-speaking children in Moscow. |
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In 1938 he left his post as a lecturer at [[University of Southampton|University College]] in [[Southampton]] to volunteer for the [[International Brigades]] fighting in Spain. He wrote of his decision: |
In 1938 he left his post as a lecturer at [[University of Southampton|University College]] in [[Southampton]] to volunteer for the [[International Brigades]] fighting in Spain. He wrote of his decision: |
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:''Today we have certainly entered a period of crisis, when the arguments of 'normal times' no longer apply, when considerations of most immediate usefulness come in. That is why I have decided to take the opportunity of going to Spain.'' |
:''Today we have certainly entered a period of crisis, when the arguments of 'normal times' no longer apply, when considerations of most immediate usefulness come in. That is why I have decided to take the opportunity of going to Spain.'' |
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Guest arrived in Spain on 31 March 1938 and joined the [[British Battalion]] of the International Brigades. The Battalion went into action at the [[Battle of the Ebro]] which began on 25 July 1938. Three days later, on 28 July 1938,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/spanjews.pdf |title=Against Fascism – Jews who served in The International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War |first=Martin |last=Sugarman |work=[[Jewish Virtual Library]] |year=2012|accessdate=6 April 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.international-brigades.org.uk/british_volunteers/roll_of_honour.htm |title=List of those who died in Spain |first1=Jim |last1=Carmody |first2=Richard |last2=Baxell |authorlink2=Richard Baxell |work=[[International Brigade Memorial Trust]] |year=2012 |accessdate=6 April 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120207001643/http://www.international-brigades.org.uk/british_volunteers/roll_of_honour.htm |archivedate=7 February 2012 }}</ref> David Guest was killed on Hill 481<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.stanford.edu/group/auden/cgi-bin/auden/individual.php?pid=I14848&ged=auden-bicknell.ged |title=David Haden-Guest |first=Nicholas |last=Jenkins |work=W.H. Auden – Family Ghosts |year=2012 |accessdate=6 April 2012}}</ref> at [[Gandesa]] by a sniper as he read a newspaper.<ref>{{cite news |url= |
Guest arrived in Spain on 31 March 1938 and joined the [[British Battalion]] of the International Brigades. The Battalion went into action at the [[Battle of the Ebro]] which began on 25 July 1938. Three days later, on 28 July 1938,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/spanjews.pdf |title=Against Fascism – Jews who served in The International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War |first=Martin |last=Sugarman |work=[[Jewish Virtual Library]] |year=2012 |accessdate=6 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140421032616/https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/spanjews.pdf |archive-date=21 April 2014 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.international-brigades.org.uk/british_volunteers/roll_of_honour.htm |title=List of those who died in Spain |first1=Jim |last1=Carmody |first2=Richard |last2=Baxell |authorlink2=Richard Baxell |work=[[International Brigade Memorial Trust]] |year=2012 |accessdate=6 April 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120207001643/http://www.international-brigades.org.uk/british_volunteers/roll_of_honour.htm |archivedate=7 February 2012 }}</ref> David Guest was killed on Hill 481<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.stanford.edu/group/auden/cgi-bin/auden/individual.php?pid=I14848&ged=auden-bicknell.ged |title=David Haden-Guest |first=Nicholas |last=Jenkins |work=W.H. Auden – Family Ghosts |year=2012 |accessdate=6 April 2012}}</ref> at [[Gandesa]] by a sniper as he read a newspaper.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/may/01/spain.uk |title=Forgotten warriors return to battle sites |first=Peter |last=Beaumont |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=1 May 2005 |location=London |issn=0261-3077 |oclc=60623878 |accessdate=6 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130829050349/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/may/01/spain.uk |archive-date=29 August 2013 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10D1FF93455117289DDAE0894D0405B888FF1D3 |title=TEACHER KILLED IN SPAIN – David Guest, British Communist, Fought With Loyalists|work=[[The New York Times]] |date=7 August 1938 |accessdate=6 April 2012}}</ref> |
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After his death, notes he had made while lecturing at the Marx Memorial Workers' School were published as ''A Text Book of [[Dialectical Materialism]]'' in 1939. |
After his death, notes he had made while lecturing at the Marx Memorial Workers' School were published as ''A Text Book of [[Dialectical Materialism]]'' in 1939. |
Revision as of 21:02, 23 January 2020
David Guest | |
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Born | David Haden-Guest 6 January 1911 |
Died | 28 July 1938 Gandesa, Spain | (aged 27)
Cause of death | Killed in action |
Resting place | Gandesa |
Nationality | British |
Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
Occupation(s) | Mathematician, philosopher |
Years active | 1931–1938 |
Partner | Suzanne McShane |
Parent | Leslie Haden-Guest, 1st Baron Haden-Guest & Muriel Ethel Carmel Goldsmid |
Relatives | Peter Haden-Guest, 4th Baron Haden-Guest (brother) |
Military Service | |
Allegiance | ![]() |
Service/ | ![]() |
Unit | British Battalion of the The "Abraham Lincoln" XV International Brigade |
Battles/wars | Spanish Civil War |
David Guest (6 January 1911[1]– 28 July 1938) was a British mathematician and philosopher who volunteered to fight for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War and was killed in Spain in 1938.
Biography
Guest was the son of Leslie Haden-Guest, 1st Baron Haden-Guest. He entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1929 and studied from 1930 to 1931 in Göttingen in Germany, where he was sentenced to two weeks in prison for anti-Nazi political activity. On his return he joined the Communist Party at Cambridge in 1931.[2] There Guest became the head of a party cell that included John Cornford, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, Victor Kiernan and James Klugmann.[3] This enabled dons such as Maurice Dobb and John Bernal to take a back-seat. It was claimed that David Guest would "stride into hall at Trinity wearing a hammer and sickle pin in his lapel."[4]
After leaving Cambridge Guest lectured in mathematics and worked for the Communist party at the Peoples' Bookshop in Lavender Hill, also teaching for a short while at a secondary school for English-speaking children in Moscow.
In 1938 he left his post as a lecturer at University College in Southampton to volunteer for the International Brigades fighting in Spain. He wrote of his decision:
- Today we have certainly entered a period of crisis, when the arguments of 'normal times' no longer apply, when considerations of most immediate usefulness come in. That is why I have decided to take the opportunity of going to Spain.
Guest arrived in Spain on 31 March 1938 and joined the British Battalion of the International Brigades. The Battalion went into action at the Battle of the Ebro which began on 25 July 1938. Three days later, on 28 July 1938,[5][6] David Guest was killed on Hill 481[7] at Gandesa by a sniper as he read a newspaper.[8][9]
After his death, notes he had made while lecturing at the Marx Memorial Workers' School were published as A Text Book of Dialectical Materialism in 1939.
Publications
- Guest, David, (1939) A Text Book of Dialectical Materialism, Lawrence And Wishart (republished as Lectures on Marxist Philosophy (1963))
References
- ^ Birgit Sondergeld (2010). Spanische Erinnerungskultur: Die Assmann’sche Theorie des kulturellen Gedächtnisses und der Bürgerkrieg 1936–1939. Springer-Verlag. p. 255. Archived from the original on 31 January 2016. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
- ^ Michael Walker. David Guest. Communist Biogs. Archived from the original on 26 January 2016. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
- ^ "Biography of David Guest". Archived from the original on 20 October 2014. Retrieved 18 September 2014.
- ^ Phillip Knightley, Philby: KGB Masterspy (1988) page 32
- ^ Sugarman, Martin (2012). "Against Fascism – Jews who served in The International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War" (PDF). Jewish Virtual Library. Archived (PDF) from the original on 21 April 2014. Retrieved 6 April 2012.
- ^ Carmody, Jim; Baxell, Richard (2012). "List of those who died in Spain". International Brigade Memorial Trust. Archived from the original on 7 February 2012. Retrieved 6 April 2012.
- ^ Jenkins, Nicholas (2012). "David Haden-Guest". W.H. Auden – Family Ghosts. Retrieved 6 April 2012.
- ^ Beaumont, Peter (1 May 2005). "Forgotten warriors return to battle sites". The Guardian. London. ISSN 0261-3077. OCLC 60623878. Archived from the original on 29 August 2013. Retrieved 6 April 2012.
- ^ "TEACHER KILLED IN SPAIN – David Guest, British Communist, Fought With Loyalists". The New York Times. 7 August 1938. Retrieved 6 April 2012.
External links
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- Walker, Michael. "David Guest". A Compendium of Communist Biographies.
Further reading
- Guest, Carmel Hayden (1939) David Guest – A Scientist Fights For Freedom 1911–1938, Lawrence and Wishart.
- 1911 births
- 1938 deaths
- 20th-century British mathematicians
- Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
- British Jews
- British Marxists
- British people of the Spanish Civil War
- British philosophers
- Communist Party of Great Britain members
- International Brigades personnel
- Jewish philosophers
- Jewish socialists
- Military personnel killed in the Spanish Civil War
- Haden-Guest family